5 Bidders for Delhi Metro Saket – Lajpat Nagar Line’s Package D2C-02
Five civil engineering firms in mid-April submitted bids for the civil construction contract D2C-02 of Delhi Metro Golden Line‘s 8.385 km spur connecting Saket G-Block and Lajpat Nagar.
This development comes 13 months after India’s Central Government approved the spur’s construction under the 112.32 km Delhi Metro Phase 4 project. This line is officially designated by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) as Line-11 and color-coded as Golden.
Line-11’s construction will be carried out under two packages. The first package D2C-02 involves construction of a 7.298 km viaduct from chainage 1202.782m to chainage 8501.25m, and the platform level of 7 elevated stations at Pushp Vihar, Saket District Court, Pushpa Bhawan, Chirag Delhi, GK-1, Andrews Ganj and Lajpat Nagar.
DMRC had invited bids for D2C-02 in January 2025 with a Rs. 456.06 crore estimate and 36 month (3 year) deadline. This contract will be funded through equity participation of the Government of India and Government of Delhi and other appropriate means of DMRC.
D2C-02’s Bidders
- Ceigall India Ltd. (CIL)
- H.G. Infra Engineering Ltd. (HGIEL)
- PNC Infratech Ltd.
- Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. (RVNL)
- Sam India Builtwell Pvt. Ltd.
DMRC’s Brief Scope: Part Design and Construction of Viaduct of Length 7.298 kms. from Chainage 1202.782 m to Chainage 8501.25 m including seven (07) stations (Only platforms) namely Pushp Vihar, Saket District Court, Pushpa Bhawan, Chirag Delhi, GK-1, Andrews Ganj and Lajpat Nagar including Pre-Engineered Building Structure in all stations of Lajpat Nagar to Saket G Block Corridor of Delhi MRTS Phase-IV Project
All stations’ exact location has been marked out on Google Maps over here.
The bids have now been sent for technical bid evaluation which can take a couple months to complete. When that is done, the financial bids of the technically qualified bidders will be opened to reveal who’s the lowest bidder and most likely contractor.
As shared in the past – DMRC has modified the line’s alignment through Saket and Pushp Vihar several times over the past 10 years. I’ve documented older iterations of it over here.
The concourse level of this spur’s stations will be built under a separate package and located adjacent to the platforms, somewhat similar to how Kailash Colony Station on the Violet Line is built. All stations except for Pushp Vihar (140m long) will have a length of just 74m which will allow the operation of just 3-coach trains.
A list of Delhi Metro Phase 4’s civil & system contracts and their status can be viewed here.
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Out of context, but what do you think about New Ashok nagar station of RRTS getting obliterated by Storm?, Is there shady construction quality by Afcons due to poor material choices for facades or roof ? 30k crore doesn’t seems less, There’s spree of Infra around the country but these incidents make things questionable.
Yeah it is shocking to see such construction work by afcons of all companies. They have a good reputation so I don’t understand what went wrong.
Anyways I believe this should be covered under defect liability by afcons and should be fixed for free.
Plus, ncrtc needs to check the work at all other stations as well now.
If these stations are build for 3 coach trains and golden line is made for 6 coach trains, how is it a spur line. Seems like an entirely new line just with same color.
Yeh same thing I was thinking about 🤔
Technical bids for gurugram metro package 1 have also been opened with 8 bidders.
This project was being awaited for a long time. It is hoped that the work will start in two-three months. ☺️🤗