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Ceigall India has a letter of intent for a Rs 5,300 crore transmission build in Gujarat, and the figure that travelled furthest this week was the wrong one. Several desks ran Rs 609 crore as the contract value. That is the annual charge the asset earns once it is running, not the money that buys machines. The build budget is roughly nine times larger, and it lands in an already busy corner of Saurashtra.
This is an inter-state project awarded through tariff-based competitive bidding, so the winner builds the asset and then owns it. The specialist transmission desk T and D India reported the letter of intent and named the project company, Jam Khambhaliya Jamnagar Power Transmission Ltd, which sits inside RECPDCL today and transfers to Ceigall. Free Press Journal carried the same figures plus a comment from managing director Ramneek Sehgal about deepening the company’s position in transmission. Ceigall was declared lowest bidder in late August; the letter of intent is the stage that follows.
Separate this from the Jam Khambhaliya scheme Power Grid won earlier. Same renewable zone, different scheme, different winner. Part-A of this procurement went in August to AnantGrid Projects One, in which Bajel Projects holds 26 per cent, for about 270 km of 765 kV double-circuit line and strengthening at three existing substations.
Read the scope as two jobs with two different fleets, because that is how it will be sub-contracted.
The substation is the earthwork. A 765/400 kV yard built as air-insulated needs a large graded platform, far larger than a gas-insulated yard at the same voltage, and it has to be cut, filled and compacted to tight tolerance before a single structure goes up. Expect a sustained run of excavators, dozers, graders and soil compactors on one site, then piling, batching and crane work for equipment foundations, gantries and the control building. That machine park stays put for most of the 36 months.
The 300 km of line is the opposite job. Tower foundations are scattered pits along a corridor across Gujarat, so the work is logistics before it is excavation. Backhoe loaders and small crawlers do the digging, and the cost sits in haulage, access tracks and tower erection gear rather than in a concentrated fleet.
Our take: Ceigall is not the buyer here, and that distinction matters. It is a road contractor moving into transmission ownership, and owners of this kind sub-award the civil packages. The machines get bought or hired one level down, by whoever takes the substation civil works and the foundation packages, probably two to three quarters out. The sharper signal is competition for capacity: with Part-A and Part-B both live alongside the Power Grid scheme, Saurashtra now has several large 765 kV builds running at once in a small geography. Piling rigs, crawler cranes and tipper capacity in Kutch, Devbhumi Dwarka and Jamnagar look like they will get tight before they get cheap.
One number we are deliberately not giving you is a rate per kilometre. The Rs 5,300 crore covers a substation and a line together, and Part-A’s value was never disclosed, so there is no clean way to split them. Anyone quoting a per-km figure on this project is guessing.
Planning for this pipeline? Compare machines across the classes these packages will pull, and get your finance in place before the mobilisation window opens.
It is the project value including GST. The Rs 608.67 crore figure that appeared in several headlines is the company-stated annual transmission charge earned over the 35-year operating period, not the construction budget.
Not immediately. The SPV has to transfer first, then the owner sub-awards civil packages. Realistic mobilisation is two to three quarters away, with the substation platform likely first.
Earthmoving and compaction on the substation platform, then piling and lifting gear for foundations and structures. The line stretch leans on backhoe loaders, compact crawlers and haulage rather than large excavators.
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Source: T&D India
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