Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: Public Sector Undertaking Rail Vikas Nigam Limited’s (RVNL)’s order book has touched Rs 65,000 crore, 50 per cent of which are railway projects, the company has said. RVNL is also looking for new projects in off-shore markets including Central Asia and UAE and Western Asia, the management said in an investors call.
“We have got an order book of around Rs 65,000 crore, which roughly constitutes 50 per cent from the nomination, that is the typical railway projects, and 50 per cent from the market. In time to come, we should maintain an order book of around Rs 75,000 crore,” top RVNL management officials said in reply to a question.
Of the total order book, the share of the Vande Bharat trains was around Rs 9,000 crore, and Rs 7,000 crore was for several metro projects. The company has also bagged projects in the electrification and transmission lines among others.
RVNL is also diversifying to other segments and eyeing many projects in the foreign countries, they said. On growth plans in offshore markets, the management said the company recently participated in a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model project in Botswana, where its has been shortlisted. Offices are being set up in some other neighboring foreign countries.
