Brahmaputra Infrastructure Limited has disclosed that its joint venture entity NCDC-Brahmaputra JV has been declared the lowest bidder — L-1 — for a Rs 81.98 crore construction contract awarded by Northeast Frontier Railway under the Lumding-Furkating Doubling Project, in a filing made to the BSE on April 30, 2026.
The contract involves construction of staff quarters across three categories — 128 units of Type-II, 50 units of Type-III and 18 units of Type-IV — along with a pump house, overhead water tank, deep tube well with IRP, drains, roads and ancillary works, and complete electrification works. The project falls under the jurisdiction of the Deputy Chief Engineer (Construction) at Lumding, Dimapur and Mariani divisions of NFR. The execution timeline is 18 months from the date of formal award.
The L-1 status means the NCDC-Brahmaputra JV submitted the lowest bid and is in line to receive the formal work order, subject to completion of customary procedural and regulatory formalities by the awarding authority. The company has clarified that the contract is not a related party transaction and that promoter or promoter group entities have no interest in the awarding entity.
The Lumding-Furkating corridor is a strategically important rail artery in Assam, carrying both freight and passenger traffic through a region that the central government has identified as a priority for railway capacity expansion and doubling. The doubling project — which adds a parallel track to the existing line — requires significant support infrastructure, including residential facilities for the railway staff deployed during construction and operations.
For Brahmaputra Infrastructure, the order adds to its consolidated order book and extends its footprint in northeastern railway construction — a segment where the company has been building relationships with NFR through its joint venture model. Successfully executing this contract within the 18-month window would also strengthen the JV’s eligibility profile for larger and more complex NFR tenders in the future, which is the longer-term strategic logic behind participation in competitively priced railway infrastructure bids of this nature.