India, Jan. 31 -- Nine companies have applied for strengthening and upgradation of the five-and-a-half-kilometre long road from Vatika Chowk to the clover leaf on NH 48, GMDA officials said. The work will be carried out at a cost of Rs.9.65 crore and it will soon be awarded to one of the bidders, they added.

The authority also said that the process to hire a consultant for the elevated SPR is at an advanced stage, and five companies have bid for the work worth Rs.50 lakh. The authority plans to construct an elevated road on this stretch at an estimated cost of Rs.750 crore.

A senior GMDA official, aware of the matter, said that six companies out of the nine, who have bid for the upgradation work of the road have been found eligible, and...