Turkish firm axed from contract for Mizoram road tunnel project
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NEW DELHI: NHIDCL, a company under the road transport ministry, has cancelled a construction supervision contract for a road tunnel project in Mizoram awarded to a joint venture (JV) of railway PSU RITES and a Turkish firm, citing failure to submit "national security clearance.
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The move comes in the wake of Ankara's support to Pakistan during India's
Operation Sindoor
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According to an order issued last week by NHIDCL, a contract for consultancy services as authority engineer for supervision of construction of the 2.5-km-long twin-tube Aizawl Bypass tunnel with approaches on NH-6 was awarded to RITES in JV with Tumas Turkish Engineering Consulting and Avok Engineering Consulting & Contracting. The agreement was signed on April 29, just days before Operation Sindoor.
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