Larsen & Toubro slated to win three orders worth Rs 5,500 crore

Mumbai: Larsen & Toubro has emerged the lowest bidder for three orders worth around 5,500 crore, including a contract from Nuclear Power Corporation of India for its Kudankulam project, people close to the development told ET.

The other two orders are from Chennai Metro Rail and energy major Oil & Natural Gas Corp. L&T is likely to officially receive the orders from these clients in the last quarter of 2020-21, the people said.

L&T declined to comment.


L&T’s construction arm is the best bidder for the heavy civil infrastructure job to build the main plant for the Kudankulam nuclear power plant’s units 5 and 6, the people said. These units will be built adjacent to units 3 and 4, where L&T is already involved in execution.

The Kudankulam nuclear power plant has two operational units and is in the process of building four more, each with a capacity 1,000 MWe. The order for the units 5 and 6 are scheduled to be completed in 64 months.

L&T is slated to bag the Chennai Metro Phase II order, which would entail construction of the first 7.95 km elevated section of Line-4 (Light House – Poonamallee) and the 47 km Line-5 (Madhavaram – Sholinganallur). This line covers nine stations from Power House to Porur Junction. Chennai Metro had invited bids in July and estimated the project cost at 800 crore. L&T beat two other bidders with a winning bid of 1,035 crore, industry insiders said.