Three companies qualify to build Meghalaya Assembly

Three companies have reportedly qualified to construct the Meghalaya Assembly building after technical evaluation. The three companies which have qualified are Shapoorji Pallonji, Simplex Infrastructure and Shree Gautum Construction Company. The structural design of the building has been done by Design Associate and was approved by IIT-Roorkee. It is expected to withstand a certain amount of seismic activity. The financial bid will soon be opened and construction work on the project is expected to start soon thereafter. Meghalaya has been without a permanent assembly building since 2001 after the heritage edifice which housed it was gutted. The high power committee under Mondal has identified and taken into possession an 80 acre plot at the New Shillong Township for building the new assembly at an estimated cost of Rs 141 crore.