L&T bags EPC order from Jharkhand Water Resources Department

11 May 2022 CW Team

The Water and Effluent Treatment Business of Larsen and Toubro (L&T) Construction received a repeat engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) order from the Department of Water Resources, Jharkhand, for executing the Masalia Ranishwar Megalift irrigation scheme on a turn-key basis.

The project aims to provide water to irrigate 22,283 hectares of Culturable Command Area (CCA) in the Dumka district of Jharkhand by pumping water from the Sidheshwari River.

The scope of work includes survey, design and construction of a 158 m long barrage across the Sidheshwari river. It also includes survey, design, procurement, installation, testing and commissioning of intake and intermediate pump houses, delivery chambers, mild steel (MS), ductile iron (Dl) and High-Density Poly Ethylene (HDPE) pipes of various diameters and pipeline distribution networks with all allied works.

Its business is already executing a similar lift irrigation project in the Garhwa, Jharkhand. The water and effluent treatment business has reinforced its credentials of possessing the technical and execution capability to deliver the elementary requirement of water to the farmers and increase agriculture across the state.

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