HCC, associates secure mega order

Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) in a joint venture with DSD Brouckenbau GmbH, Germany and VNR Infrastructures, has bag­ged a Rs 987-crore order from the Northeast Frontier Railway to construct a rail-cum-road bri­dge across the Brahmaputra, near Dibrugarh, Assam. HCC share in the order is 51 per cent, DSD Brouckenbau 20 per cent and VNR Infrastructures 29 per cent. The Bogibeel bri­dge will be a double-deck bridge with two railway tracks on the lower deck and a three lane road on the upper deck. The road level will be 10.5 metre above the railway line. The total len­gth of the bridge will be 4.315 km. This will be the fou­rth lar­gest bridge in the country.