PWD, Odisha invites RFQs for road widening project

The Public Works Department, Odisha has invited RFQs from potential companies for road widening project in the state.

The bids have been invited for four laning with paved shoulders of Sambalpur-Rourkela section of SH-10 from Km 4.900 to Km 167.900 in Orissa to be executed as BOT (Toll) project on DBFOT pattern. The project is estimated to cost Rs 1, 293 crore. Last date for the submission of RFQs is 14 November 2012.

Rukura irrigation project gets green signal

The Planning Commission has accorded clearance to the Rs 300-crore Rukura medium irrigation project in Sundergarh district of Orissa, to be implemented under the Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme.

About 5,700 ha of farm land is to be irrigated by the project. The land acquisition work is underway and the project is slated to be completed by 2014

According to sources, the tender work for the project and the construction of the model colony are in progress. Simultaneously, the rehabilitation and resettlement work is in advanced stages of completion.