Bagodara-Tarapur-Vasad highway (SH-8) six-laning
GSRDC / R&B Gujarat · Bagodara - Vataman - Tarapur - Vasad · 101.9 km
The 101 km state highway that links the Ahmedabad-Rajkot road at Bagodara with NH-48 at Vasad, the shortest route between Saurashtra and south Gujarat. After a 2011 BOT concession failed, it was six-laned in two annuity packages completed in 2021 and 2022.
Build history
Every construction, widening and repair we could source, newest first.
- CompletedWork 3 of 3
Package I: Bagodara-Tarapur (53.8 km) on modified annuity
- Contract awarded
- Not on record
- Work started
- Not on record
- Completed
- 19 Feb 2022
- Contract value
- ₹649 crore
- Age since completion
- 4 yr 8 mo
CARE Ratings records a 16.5-year concession with GSRDC, project cost Rs 649.21 crore (Rs 196.10 crore construction grant), provisional COD on 19 February 2022 and final completion in mid-2022 (the rationale gives both 9 June and 2 July 2022). Formally dedicated on 22 April 2022.
Checked against sources - CompletedWork 2 of 3
Package II: Tarapur-Vasad (48 km) on DBFOMT annuity
- Contractor
- RKC Infrabuilt Pvt Ltd
- Contract awarded
- Not on record
- Work started
- Not on record
- Completed
- 7 Oct 2021
- Contract value
- ₹1,005 crore
- Age since completion
- 5 years
Scheduled for dedication by the Chief Minister on 7 October 2021 (a later report says it was completed in October 2021); includes 18 flyovers, 24 underpasses, 38 km of service road and a toll plaza at Bochasan. The R&B minister said in July 2021 that the firm doing the six-laning would maintain the stretch for 15 years. The Rs 1,005 crore figure is as stated in the DeshGujarat report, which quotes the company.
Checked against sources - CancelledWork 1 of 3
Six-laning on BOT (toll) - abandoned
- Bidder (not the builder)
- GVK Development Project Ltd
- Contract awarded
- 21 Feb 2011
- Work started
- Not on record
- Completion
- Not on record
- Contract value
- Not disclosed
GSRDC signed the concession for the 101.9 km road on 21 February 2011, with work due October 2011 to April 2014 and a projected Rs 4,968 crore premium to the state over 27 years. In July 2021 the R&B minister said GVK had left the works incomplete, after which the road was re-bid as two packages.
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