Indian construction giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T) announced that its construction arm has won orders worth INR23.57bn ($337.36m) in the domestic market. L&T’s water and effluent treatment and transportation infrastructure business has been awarded an INR12.81bn ($183.35m) contract by Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (AP CRDA).

Under the terms of the design and build contract, the firm will be responsible for investigation, design and construction of roads, bridges, stormwater drains, culverts, water supply systems, sewerage systems, STP, utility ducts for power and ICT Additionally, L&T will reuse waterlines and carry out avenue plantation, compatible with trunk infrastructure in layouts for land pooling schemes for the villages of Kurugalla, Nidamarru in Zone 12A area at Amravati Capital City, Andhra Pradesh. This is in continuation with orders received earlier at Amravati Capital City, Andhra Pradesh. Separately, L&T’s water and effluent treatment business has been awarded a contract worth INR10.76bn ($154.01m) by the Madhya Pradesh Jal Nigam Maryadit (MPJNM).

The scope of the contract includes the execution of multi-village rural water supply schemes in Jabalpur, Narsinghpur, Seoni and Damoh districts of Madhya Pradesh. Besides designing, engineering, supplying and erecting of raw and clear water transmission and distribution pipelines, building of intake wells, the contractor will be responsible for the design and construction of water treatment plants, pumping stations and other water retaining structures with associated electromechanical and instrumentation works, including house service connections. Furthermore, the project involves automation including measurement of input and output water quantity and quality at each level through SCADA and other instrumentation works which will help in maintaining unwanted-for-water (UFW) within desired levels.