The twin tunnels will be constructed by TBM. The contract also includes construction of a major underground station, Municipal Corporation, which is 290m long and 30m in width. The station will be built at depth of 18m. The work will be completed in
36 months.
Arun Karambeklar, president and whole time director, HCC, said: "HCC has been undertaking challenging assignments in underground metro development and repeat order from DMRC reflects our ability to execute complex assignments. Last month, HCC completed the Œup-line tunnel’ of CC30 package well ahead of all peers working on phase III development."
Prior to this order, the company has received two contracts under the Phase III of Metro development for package CC30 on the Mukundpur – Yamuna Vihar corridor in October 2012 and package CC34 on Janakpuri WestKalindi Kunj Corridor in February 2013. The company has already deployed 5 TBMs for these two packages.