Blue Star enters the railway electrification market and receives 4 orders totalling Rs575 crore

22 Mar 2023 , 08:40 AM

On Tuesday, Blue Star revealed that it had effectively expanded its market share in the railway sector and made its entry into the railway electrification area by securing orders for railway electrification totalling Rs575 crore.

Several notable clients, including the West Central Railway (Kota Division), Central Organization for Railway Electrification (CORE), and Metro Railway, Kolkata, have awarded the company four orders for the electrification of railways, according to a statement published with stock exchanges.

The business claimed to have received a contract for the design, provision, erection, testing, and commissioning of a 132/55 kV traction substation, as well as sectioning posts (SPs) and sub-sectioning posts (SSPs) of 2X25 kV at feeding system, for the West Central Railway’s Gangapur City to Ramganjmandi section. 

In addition, it has a contract for the design, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning of a 132/55 kV traction substation, SPs, and SSPs of 2X25 kV at the feeding system for the West Central Railway’s Nagda-Kota segment.

Third, it received a contract for the design, manufacture, installation, testing, and commissioning of traction substations and related switching posts of 2X25 kV at the feeding system in the Pradhankhanta-Manpur Section of the Dhanbad Division and the Manpur-Deendayal Upadhyay Section of the Deendayal Upadhyay Division of East Central Railway.

Last but not least, the company announced that it had received an order from Metro Railway, Kolkata, for the design, supply, erection, testing, and commissioning of a 750 V DC substation as well as an upgrade to the power supply system at Geetanjali and Esplanade and renovation of Noapara Traction Substation of Metro Railway Kolkata.

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