RPP Infra Projects, an infrastructure company based in Erode, Tamil Nadu, bagged a Rs 50 crore pilot project funded by the government of India for building housing for the internally displaced people (IDPs) in Sri Lanka.
Under the project, the company would build 1,000 houses for IDPs in two packages in Mullaitheevu, Vavuniya, Jaffna, Kilinochchi and Mannar districts in the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka within an execution period of six months, according to a company announcement.
The project is funded by the Government of India through the Ministry of External Affairs, while the execution of the project would be through a central government subsidiary, Hindustan Pre-Fab Ltd (HPL).
The government is planning to build 50,000 houses for the IDPs through the project, said Arul Sundaram, chairman and managing director of RPP Infra Projects Ltd
“As RPP Ifra has already executing projects in Sri Lanka, this project would help us in putting a strong hold in Sri Lanka,” said Sundaram. The company has recently entered the Sri Lanakan market with a project in the railway sector.
With this project, the company's order book position is at Rs 2,250 crore as of April 23, 2011. It has so far completed around 200 civil projects in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
It has also forayed into the Republic of Gabon, a central western African nation, with an order for a Rs 1,500 crore mass housing project in the province.
