RVNL Invites Bids for Kolkata Metro Line-3’s Mominpur Extension

Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. today invited bids for the civil construction of Kolkata Metro Line-3’s Majerhat & Mominpur stations, a 1.326 km viaduct between them which includes a 50m steel girder span between piers P288-P289, and a small 225 meter viaduct ramp at Joka Depot.

Construction on Kolkata’s 16.5 km Line-3’s elevated part has been underway since 2011 by Simplex Infrastructures for 2 packages (4.748 km Joka – Behala and 4.762 km Behala – Mominpur), but work couldn’t earlier begin on Majerhat and Mominpur stations due to severe land acquisitions issues and pending approvals from the Indian Railways.

The construction of Majerhat Station, along with 2 others at Taratala and Behala Bazar was originally awarded to Gammon India in April 2012 under packages JMS-2. However, after the collapse of an adjacent 1960’s era Railway Overbridge (ROB) in September 2018, Gammon abandoned the Majerhat site due to design issues which has now led to re-tendering for its balance works.

Contract / IFB No: RVNL/Kol/Majerhat-Mominpur/Metro Work

Scope: Construction of Metro Railway Viaduct from P276 to P314 including Mominpur Station and Majerhat Station (Excluding PD Building and OCC Building side ) and Ramp at Joka depot end in connection with Joka-Esplanade Metro Railway Project in Kolkata, West Bengal

• Estimate: Rs. 190.64 crore
• Opening Date for Sale: 6/13/2020 12:00:00 AM
• Closing Date & Time for Sale: 7/27/2020 10:55:00 AM
• Opening Date for Download: 6/13/2020 12:00:00 AM
• Closing Date & Time for Download: 7/27/2020 10:55:00 AM

Station specs from the tender document –

Majerhat Station

• Length: 180m
• Number of Spans: 12
• Concourse Area: 3100 sqm
• Track Slab: 1880 sqm
• Platform Area: 3050 sqm
• Escalator: 5
• Lifts: 2
• Staircases: 5

Mominpur Station

• Length: 180m
• Number of Spans: 10
• Concourse Area: 980 sqm
• Track Slab: 1880 sqm
• Platform Area: 3100 sqm
• Escalator: 5
• Lifts: 2
• Staircases: 4

Things are looking up for this line. Back in April, RVNL invited bids for the construction of Joka Depot. In December 2019, bids were invited for appointing a Project Management Consultant (PMC) for its mostly underground 6 km northern extension from Majerhat to BBD Bagh to form a 3-line interchange at Esplanade Station. That tender has a closing date of June 29, 2020.

For more updates, check out the Kolkata section of The Metro Rail Guy!

– TMRG