Vishnusurya Projects Wins Rs 103 Cr Order

Chennai, Jul 19 (PTI) Construction and infrastructure company specialising in engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), Vishnusurya Projects and Infra Ltd has secured a Rs 103.07 crore order from JWIL Infra Ltd, a water management company providing end-to-end solutions.


The contract from JWIL Infra is for laying, testing and commissioning of pipelines along with necessary civil construction for the proposed 400 million litre per day desalination plant to come up in Perur near Chennai, Vishnusurya Projects said in a press release here on Saturday.


The timeline for executing the contract is 17 months, the company said.


The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has awarded this contract to JWIL Infra for establishing the desalination plant to cater to 22.67 lakh people in areas falling under Tambaram, and 20 village panchayats located near Chennai.

Vishnusurya Projects and Infrastructure Ltd CEO and Whole-time director V Sanal Kumar said, "We are pleased to bag this contract and be a part of the social cause of supplying potable drinking water through the project."

In the past, the company has bagged similar contracts for improvement of water supply distribution system at Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam and Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu, he said.