KEC International, a billion dollar global infrastructure EPC major has bagged an order from Bhopal Dhule Transmission Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sterlite Technologies, worth Rs 340 crore for the construction of the 765 kV and 400 kV transmission lines in Maharashtra and Gujarat.
As per the order, project includes 765 kV single circuit transmission line from Aurangabad to Dhule (188.5 kms), 865 kV circuit transmission line from Dhule to Vadodra (264 kms) and 400kV double circuit transmission line from Dhule to Dhule (16kms). These lines are part of build-own-operate-maintain project awarded by Power Finance Corporation to Sterlite Technologies for transmission system straightening.
KEC International is mainly into the business of design, manufacture and erection of transmission towers and power transmission lines on EPC basis. Besides, the company has now broadened its activities by diversifying into the distribution and substation sector (through rural electrification projects), railway electrification projects as well as providing services like optical fibre installations, Satellite/GPRS surveys and turnkey telecom infrastructure services.
