Nearly 15 Indian and multinational companies are working on 25 different projects in different parts of the city to give shape to Chennai’s metro rail project.
Sources said that many of the projects are worth thousands of crore and that work on many of the elevated projects are on the verge of completion.
Interestingly, many international firms have joined hands with the Indian firms to bag the tenders for the metro rail projects. It includes Emirates Trading Agency LLC, Dubai, and ETA Engineering Private Limited, India Consortium joining hands for the Rs 241.83-crore project to build tunnel ventilation system and Afcons, an Indian construction and infrastructure company, joining hands with Transtonnelstroy Limited, a Russian company, to design and construct underground stations at Washermanpet, Mannadi, High Court, Chennai Central, Egmore, Shenoy Nagar, Anna Nagar East, Anna Nagar Tower and Thirumangalam at a cost of over `2,500 crore.
Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) and Shanghai Urban Construction (Group) Corporation are together designing and constructing the underground stations at Nehru Park, Kilpauk Medical College and Pachaiappa’s College and Associated Tunnels.
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Germany, and Siemens Limited India Consortium have teamed up to install signalling, platform screen doors and telecommunications. This project is worth `627.13 crore.
Alstom Transport S A and Alstom Projects India Ltd Consortium have teamed up to design, manufacture, supply, testing and commissioning of Electric Multiple Units (EMUs) and training of personnel. The project is worth Rs 1,471 crore.
Some of the projects are being handled alone by the Indian companies. These include Rs 199.20-crore project of design and construction of elevated viaduct from Koyambedu to Ashok Nagar by Soma Enterprises and Rs 178.94-crore project undertaken by Lanco Infratech to design and construct elevated station at Meenambakkam. Architectural Builders Works and Finishes (ABWF) and Building Services (BS) are working on Chennai Airport station, and on cut-cover tunnel between OTA station and Chennai Airport station.