Afcons bags Rs.938 crore Kolkata Metro project

Kolkata, March 20 : Afcons Infrastructure Ltd. (Afcons), the infrastructure arm of Shapoorji Pallonji Group, has bagged a Rs.938-crore project for design and construction of a part of the East-West Metro project in the city.

Disclosing this at a media meet here Saturday, Afcons director for transportation Ramakrishna V. Ramanan said: "The project includes design and construction of the underground Metro from Howrah Maidan station to Central Station".

The project, bagged through competitive bidding in joint venture with a Russian company Transtonnelstroy Limited, has to be completed in four years.

Part of the project includes making a link, 20 metres below the Hooghly river.

The contract includes designing and construction of three underground stations and a nearly three-km of twin bored tunnel, of which 520 metres is under the river.