L&T metro orders worth ₹5,000 crore to ₹10,000 crore cover two design-and-build systems packages for Bangladesh’s Dhaka Metro Line 1. The contracts secured by Larsen & Toubro’s Transportation Infrastructure business involve track, electrical, signalling, telecommunications and platform screen-door systems for the country’s first underground metro project.

Key Takeaways

  • The award value is a range, not a disclosed exact contract amount.
  • Sumitomo Corporation will partner with L&T on the track and electrical package.
  • The orders follow L&T’s completed railway-systems work on Dhaka Metro Line 6.

What the L&T metro orders cover

The awards comprise Contract Package CP09 for track works and electrical systems, and CP10 for signalling, telecommunications and platform screen doors. Together, they cover core systems needed to operate Line 1.

For CP09, L&T and its Japanese partner Sumitomo Corporation will handle design, procurement, installation, testing and commissioning. The scope includes complete track works, power supply and distribution, traction substations, overhead catenary equipment and associated electrical facilities across the corridor.

Under CP10, L&T will execute signalling, telecommunications and platform screen-door systems for the entire network. The announced ₹5,000 crore to ₹10,000 crore range covers the orders; a separate value for each package was not provided.

Line 1 adds two routes to Dhaka’s transit network

The JICA-funded project is planned to span approximately 31 kilometres, with 19 stations and a depot at Pitalganj. It includes the Airport Route from Kamalapur to Airport and the Purbachal Route from Natun Bazar to Purbachal Terminal.

JICA’s project objectives for Dhaka Metro Line 1 describe the railway as a way to alleviate traffic congestion and mitigate air pollution, contributing to economic development and an improved urban environment. Those are project objectives, rather than measured outcomes from the newly awarded systems contracts.

Repeat business after Dhaka Metro Line 6

L&T previously delivered the integrated railway systems package for Dhaka Metro Line 6, Bangladesh’s first metro rail corridor, which is in commercial operation.

Ramkumar S, L&T’s senior executive vice president and head of Transportation Infrastructure, described the repeat orders from Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited as evidence of the company’s capabilities in integrated urban transit projects. He also cited L&T’s Line 6 experience and its ongoing Jakarta Metro work as relevant to coordinating multiple systems, equipment manufacturers and other stakeholders.

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