Seven ROBs to come up in Bhadrak-Berhampur railway route

BHUBANESWAR: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with government enterprise Engineering Projects (India) Limited (EPIL) for construction of seven road over bridges (ROBs) between Dhanmandal station in Jajpur district and Berhampur station in Ganjam district under Khurda Road division.
EPIL, a public sector enterprise under the Union ministry of heavy industries and public enterprises, will execute the project with an estimated cost of Rs 303.36 crore.The work for these ROBs has been assigned to this government firm by the Railway Board. EPIL will be paid management fee at 3.64 per cent over the project cost.
ECoR is abolishing level crossing gates by constructing ROBs, road under bridges (RUBs) and limited height subways (LHS) to enhance the safety of train operations and facilitate hassle-free movement of both rail and road traffic.
In view of this, MoU has been signed on Tuesday between EPIL executive director Biswajit Biswas and ECoR chief engineer (road safety works) Brijesh Kumar Mishra in the presence of ECoR principal chief engineer Narottam Singh Uikey for construction of seven ROBs on the Howrah-Chennai mainline.
The first ROB will be constructed between Gopalpur Balikuda and Barang stations, second one between Dhanmandal and Byree stations, third one between Khurda Road and Kaipadar Road stations, fourth one between Ganjam and Chatrapur stations, fifth one between Chatrapur and Jagannathapur stations and the last two ROBs will be constructed between Jagannathpur and Berhampur stations.
With the signing of this agreement, total 13 ROBs in ECoR will be executed on the model formulated by the Railway Board. On November 17, the ECoR had inked MoU with government PSU Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) for construction of six ROBs between Ranital and Jenapur stations under Khurda Road division at an estimated cost of Rs 436.87 crore.
ECoR was the first zonal Railway to execute the MoU with the government PSU TCIL for execution of work for construction of ROBs. Before this, the Indian Railways was constructing railway part of the ROBs on its own.