📋 Tender Overview
Scope : To Build Sonprayag-Gaurikund-Kedarnath ropeway project in Uttarakhand.
The Centre has made religious pitch in poll-bound Uttarakhand by inviting tender for building ambitious ropeway project to Kedarnath.
During his visit to Kedarnath last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said work on cable car ropeway to the holy shrines would start soon. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on January invited bids from private parties to build, maintain and operate a ropeway project from Sonprayag to Kedarnath via Gaurikund in Uttarakhand.
The cost of the Sonprayag-Gaurikund-Kedarnath ropeway project's length will be 13 km. It will take just 30 minutes for pilgrims to reach the shrines by ropeway. A project has also been started so that the faithful can come to Kedarnath ji through cable car. The bid will open in March. The ropeway project is expected to be affordable options for the common man to reach this pilgrimage site. Kedarnath temple is among the holiest shrines of Hindus. Under the Narendra Modi government, project got fresh impetus and the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) for ropeway was commissioned last year and the NHAI was assigned the job to execute them. It could take up to three years to construct the ropeway. The authority (NHAI) has decided to carry out the bidding process for selection of a private entity as the Bidder to whom the Project may be awarded.
On February 2023, G R Infraprojects has emerged as the L1 bidder for ropeway project in Uttarakhand, to be executed on hybrid annuity mode (HAM) basis. The tender was floated by National Highways Logistics Management (NHLML).
The proposed work pertains to the development, operation and maintenance of Gaurikund-Kedarnath ropeway in Uttarakhand. The construction period is 48 months for project. The operations will extend for 15 years from the commercial operation date.
On June 2022, The work on the ropeway project, Sonprayag to Kedarnath will begin soon.
The detailed project report (DPR) for the project has been prepared. The Sonprayag-Kedarnath project will cost around Rs 1,200 crore and will be 13 km long. Under the Kedarnath ropeway project, 26.43 ha of forest land is to be transferred to the state government. Project has been cleared by the State Wildlife Board and have been sent to the National Wildlife Board for approval.
