KEC International bags two orders worth Rs 217 crore

MUMBAI: RPG group company, KEC International, has bagged two orders worth Rs 217-crore from NTPC Electric Supply Company Limited (NESCL) and Power Grid Corporation of India.

KEC has bagged the order from NESCL, worth Rs 120-crore, for a turnkey rural electrification project in Keonjahr (Orissa), a company press release said here today.

The project covers electrification of 2,195 villages and providing electricity connection to 1.85-lakh BPL (below poverty line) families, besides construction of eight 33/11 kw new/augmentation of substations, the release said.

The project is to be completed before March 2010. The second order, another tunkey project worth Rs 97-crore, is for 765 kv and 185-km long single-circuit Balia-Lucknow transmission line in Uttar Pradesh, the release said.

The job involves supply of towers and line materials and commissioning, it said, adding that "the project is scheduled to be completed before June 2010."