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Tuesday, 8 September 2015

22:52

Madras HC allows Chennai Metro Rail to go ahead with retender process

Madras HC allows Chennai Metro Rail to go ahead with retender process

Chennai: The Madras High Court today allowed Chennai Metro Rail Ltd to go ahead with the retender process for the underground tunnel work between Saidapet and Government Estate.

This 1,947-crore project was originally awarded to Gammon. However, CMRL had terminated Gammon in June due to delay in project completion.

Gammon’s Russian partner Mosmetrotroy, which was entrusted with the underground work, abandoned the project abruptly.

Justice K Ravichandrabaabu in his order ‎refused to stay Gammon’s petition to stop the retender process‎.

He asked both parties to go for arbitration proceedings in four weeks. Gammon has already invoked the arbitration, said its counsel.

The judge told CMRL to keep alive the bank guarantee till the arbitration is over.
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Wednesday, 15 July 2015

12:09

Chennai Metro rail fires Gammon, stops tunnelling work

Chennai Metro rail fires Gammon, stops tunnelling work

Chennai (MAS): Underground tunnelling of metro rail along Anna Salai here has halted and is likely to remain so for several months as Chennai Metro Rail has terminated the 2,000crore contract with Gammon India-Mosmetrostroy.

The decision was taken after Gammon India delayed work and couldn’t get its Russian partner Mosmetrostroy to resume work on the last 3km stretch.

This would mean that the metro corridor, which is one year behind schedule and struggling to meet an extended deadline of 2016-end, may not be ready till late 2017. This 23.1km corridor, from Washermenpet to Airport, includes 14.3km underground.

Authorities are planning to float fresh tenders for the remaining work worth 800crore. The process is expected to take three or four months. If everything goes according to Plan B, work is likely to resume in January.

The Gammon-Mosmetrostroy joint venture had bagged contracts to build tunnels and underground stations between Government Estate to Saidapet in February 2011. It could complete only 60% of the work.
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Saturday, 13 June 2015

07:11

Chennai Metro to invoke ₹77 Crore Bank Guarantee given by Mosmetrostroy to settle the dues of sub-contractors

Chennai Metro to invoke RS.77 Crore Bank Guarantee given by Mosmetrostroy to settle the dues of sub-contractors

Chennai (MAS): More sub-contractors who have supplied construction material for Chennai Metro Rail project are planning to seek legal remedy to recover their dues from Mosmetrostroy, a Russian company which handles the tunnelling contract for the project.

Mosmetrostroy, in partnership with an Indian company, Gammon, was awarded two contracts totalling ₹1,947 crore for building 19 underground stations and 18 km of associated tunnels for Chennai Metro.

Bank Guarantee

Chennai Metro can invoke bank guarantee to the tune of ₹77 crore given by Mosmetrostroy to settle the dues of sub-contractors of the Russian company. However, for this, an order from the Madras High Court is necessary.

Madhiazhagan, who is among five petitioners said when the matter came up for hearing on Monday, the Court wanted to know whether Gammon and CMRL had any objection to the invoices raised. They did not have any objection, and have, in fact, endorsed the invoices, he said. The sub-contractors first approached the Commissioner of Police and then CMRL to recover their dues. They also approached the Russian Consulate to bring back the officials to start the project, but in vain, he said.

100 vendors left in lurch

However, Mosmetrostroy stopped work last month after Chennai Metro Rail declined to accept its demand for cost escalation.

Gammon handles the construction of underground stations that’s going on.

R Madhiazhagan, Vice-President, Chennai Vendor Association, who represents the sub-contractors, said over a 100 sub-contractors who supplied sand, cement and brick, bolts and steel bars have been left in the lurch with payment dues of over ₹30 crore.

Sources said five vendors have filed petitions on Monday seeking a direction from the Court to help them recover the dues, and the rest will approach the court in a day or two.
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Monday, 1 June 2015

16:17

Mosmetrostroy saga: Chennai Metro Rail work resumes after AFCONS steps in

Mosmetrostroy saga: Chennai Metro Rail work resumes after AFCONS steps in

Chennai (MAS): Metro rail authorities have asked AFCONS Infrastructure, which is building tunnels under Poonamallee High Road, to take over the incomplete work on the tunnels under Anna Salai after Mosmetrostroy JV abandoned it recently.

Chennai Corporation had earlier asked Gammon, that had a tie-up with the Russian company, to complete the work abandoned by its JV partner. Officials wanted Gammon to hire tunnel technicians to continue the work. “AFCONS has started doing some emergency work like maintaining equipment and pressure of the boring machines as they have experience in tunnel work. We told them to step in temporarily to complete the work,” said a senior official of metro rail. AFCONS  has expertise in metro tunnels as they started off their metro projects by building tunnels in Kolkata.

He said that discussions were on with AFCONS to find out if they would be able to take over the work fully for Gammon. “They are assessing the quantity of work that will have to be done if they have to take over the abandoned work site and the unfinished line between LIC and Gemini,” he added. The move comes after Gammon said that it does not have the expertise to complete the tunnel work. “We do not want the work to get delayed if Gammon did not act on our instructions. The underground tunnel work is already behind schedule and with Mosmetrostroy abandoning the work will affect the schedules further. The priority is to get the work going rather than trying to pull up the contractors,” said an official.

Meanwhile, Gammon officials are hoping to hear from Mosmetrostroy and are waiting for metro rail to take a call on completing the rest of the tunnels that needs to be built.

“We have not received clear instructions from metro rail about continuing the work. They have to take a call. Metro rail has contacted the Russian consulate. We expect officials of the company to return as they have financial liability to fulfill,” said a official from Gammon.

The withdrawal of Mosmetrostroy has delayed the work. Pace of tunnel boring is unpredictable. It depends on the soil condition and the quality of buildings on the surface. It took five months for metro rail’s contractors to bore 2km of tunnels. At this pace, a break in the work will cause serious delay which is expected to push deadline for commissioning of metro rail line along Anna Salai by more than three years.
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Wednesday, 13 May 2015

11:20

Chennai Metro Rail Sub-contractors file complaint against Russian firm ‘Mosmetrostroy’

Chennai Metro Rail Sub-contractors file complaint against Russian firm ‘Mosmetrostroy’

Chennai (MAS): Russian-based firm Mosmetrostroy, one of the key contractors of Chennai Metro Rail (Mosmetrostroy India is a joint venture of Gammon India Limited and OJSC Mosmetrostroy of Russia) has allegedly failed to pay its 64 subcontractors nearly Rs. 26 crore and left the project work, claims Chennai Vendors Association. The members protested outside Russian Consulate here on Tuesday and claimed to have met the officials.

R.Mathiazhagan, Vice-President of the association, claimed that they had met Consul-General Sergey L.Kotov and briefed him about the issue. “Sometime back, we met the officials of Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) who said they would return this amount on the condition that Mosmetrostroy gives an authorisation for the same.” However, a source at the Russian Consulate said no representation had been made.

Gammon India in a joint venture with Mosmetrostroy was awarded a contract of Rs. 1,947 crore by CMRL for construction of seven underground stations from Government Estate to Saidapet.

S. Murugan, a contractor who supplied water to the company, said: “I have been supplying water for over a year now; the problem with regard to payment has been going on only for the last two months. Before that, there was no issue at all. Now, they have to pay me Rs.20 lakh.”

Earlier, a team of sub-contractors met Chennai police commissioner S George on 30th April, and lodged a complaint against Mosmetro India Limited which was involved in the execution of the Chennai Metrol Rail project. The sub-contractors alleged that the company had failed to pay dues, amounting to more than Rs 20 crore, to them. Fourteen of the total 40 sub-contractors met the police commissioner and submitted separate complaints against the company.

They claimed that they had supplied all the construction materials for the last two years. Though Mosmetro India had encashed the bills, it allegedly didn’t pay dues to the sub-contractors. A sub-contractor said they approached the police as the two officials of Mosmetro had suddenly disappeared from its office. Other employees at the company’s office in Chennai told the contractors that the duo left for Russia on Tuesday.  “CMRL officials told us that they cleared the company’s bills amounting to Rs 19 crore on Saturday,” he said.
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