DFCCIL shortlist four consortia for Vadodara-Mumbai link

The Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL) has shortlisted four consortia to bid for the construction of a 320km rail link between Vadodara in Gujarat and Vaitarna in Maharashtra at a cost of Rs32bn ($534m).

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide funding for the new project, under which the consortia, which are all being led by Japanese companies, will have to submit their bids to design and build the line in a month's time.

The consortia include Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Sojitz, Fujita and IVRCL, Ircon International and Mitsui, and Marubeni, Tata Projects, KEC International, Gammon India and GMR Infrastructure.