Infrastructure services provider Feedback Infra, on July 19, 2017, said that it had bagged a contract from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) for the proposed Nagpur-Hyderabad-Bengaluru Expressway.
As per the contract, Feedback Infra’s Highways IndVe SBU will establish the technical, economic and financial viability of this project and prepare the DPR of the project, including the rehabilitation and upgrading of the existing road configuration, if required, the company said in a statement.
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The 1,100-km-long expressway will pass through four states, including Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka and the cost is estimated at Rs 35,000 crores.
“This contract shows that Indian engineering firms are able to go up the scale, from designing highways to designing such long and technically complex expressways,” Feedback Infra’s chairman, Vinayak Chatterjee said.
Feedback Infra has been associated with other expressway projects, either in an advisory or in a project management role, with the most recent being the 302-km Agra to Lucknow Expressway and the 700-km Nagpur to Mumbai Super Expressway, it said.
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