📋 Tender Overview
Scope : To Construct 19.88 km Chennai Port-Maduravoyal Expressway project in Tamil Nadu.
J Kumar Infraprojects has emerged as the lowest bidder to construct 5.096 km stretch under Package-II of the 19.88 km Chennai Port-Maduravoyal Expressway project in Tamil Nadu.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) four-laning project involves the construction of a double-decker access-controlled elevated highway along the Cooum river and connects km 4.604 to km 9.700.
Its foundation stone was laid in May, 2022 under 'Bharatmala Pariyojana' with an estimated cost of Rs 5,855 crore. Thereafter, tender was invited with a 910-day construction timeline. Technical bids were opened in April, 2023 to reveal six bidders including Afcons Infrastructure, G R Infraprojects and Ramalingam-Braithwaite joint venture (JV) among others.
The project will help to alleviate traffic congestion in Chennai by allowing local traffic movement into one tier of the elevated highway. Additional benefits include double the handling capacity of the port, bring down wait times at the port, and reduce commute time by an hour for vehicles bound for the port. The project has four sections or packages.
