Mumbai, March 18 -- Infrastructure Major, SPML Infra said that it has received four new orders for water supply and irrigation projects with combined cost of over Rs 883 crores from Gujarat, Manipur and Punjab.
The first and the largest single order received so far by SPML Infra Limited is worth Rs 723.87 Crore for the Phase 3 of Saurashtra-Narmada Avtaran Irrigation (SAUNI Yojana), an ambitious project initiated by the Gujarat government.
The project envisage to divert one million acre feet (1 MAF) water to 115 Reservoirs through 1115 kilometer pipeline network to irrigate 1.8 million hectare of land and provide drinking water facility to 39 million people across 132 towns and 11,456 villages in Gujarat to address the scarcity of drinki...