Under pressure Gammon India executed big project

Wednesday, 29 July 2009 09:02 administrator
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The New Indian Express 29.07.2009

Under pressure Gammon India executed big project


CHENNAI: Gammon India, the civil engineering construction company that is facing a threat of being blacklisted by the Centre in the wake of the Delhi Metro rail mishap that claimed six lives, has built several flyovers in Chennai and is the contractor for the one still under construction at Cenatoph Road.

The country’s first Fast Breeder Nuclear reactor that is coming up in Kalpakkam is also being built by Gammon, which also did the pipe-laying work for the Chennai Water Supply scheme.

This clear water transmission line project involves laying of steel pipes for 94 km from Ongur River to Vandalur and pipes of a different diameter between Vandalur and Porur covering 20 km.

Of the nine flyovers that were built during the tenure of Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin when he was Chennai Mayor between 1996-2001, Gammon was entrusted with at least six projects. These were built over the Peters Road-Conran Smith junction and Peters Road-West Cott Road junction in Royepettah, Radhakrishnan Road-Royepettah High Road, and Purasaiwakkam High Road-Sri Narayanaguru Road in Purasaiwakkam, Pantheon Road-Casa Major Road junction in Egmore and TTK Road-Radhakrishnan Road intersection.

Among the second batch of flyovers that were completed recently, Gammon had undertaken the work on the Kodambakkam High Road and Mahalingapuram Road junction, the one at North Usman Road and the one stretching up to T Nagar Bus Stand from G N Chetty Road.