Engineering major Larsen & Toubro today said it has bagged a contract worth Rs 1,070 crore in Saudi Arabia for constructing ballastless tracks for Riyadh metro lines.

The water & effluent treatment strategic business group of L&T Construction has won turnkey orders worth Rs 1,489 crore in August 2015, in three packages, from Public Health Engineering Department, Ajmer, under the Rajasthan Rural Water Supply and Fluorosis Mitigation Project (Nagaur).

The projects, funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), are aimed at providing potable water to 986 villages and seven urban towns in Nagaur district and 111 villages and two towns of Bikaner district in Rajasthan.

Larsen & Toubro today said power transmission and distribution business of L&T Construction has bagged orders worth Rs 864 crore from Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation ‘KAHRAMAA’.

“The power transmission and distribution business of L&T Construction has won a prestigious order in the Middle East from Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation ‘KAHRAMAA’ worth QAR (Qatari Riyal) 491.45 million (Rs 864 crore),” Larsen & Toubro said in a BSE filing.

The Power Transmission & Distribution Business of L&T Construction has won orders worth Rs 1,563 crore in both the international and domestic markets in July and August.

As a strategic breakthrough in the ASEAN market, the company has received order from Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) for the design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of a 500 kV double circuit transmission line in Malaysia. This is one of the three packages of the 500 kV overhead double circuit transmission line for TNB from Yong-Peng to Lenggeng in Peninsular Malaysia which will be critical for evacuating power from the power plants in the Johor state.

Mumbai: Larsen & Tourbo (L&T), India’ largest engineering and construction company, has scrapped a plan to develop a new port in Kacchigadh, near the temple town of Dwarka in Gujarat, owing to environmental reasons, according to two state government officials close to the development.

“L&T has written to the government that it no longer intends to pursue the port project in Gujarat due to environmental reasons. L&T had appointed the Gujarat Ecology Commission to carry out environmental studies and found that the place was full of corals and mangroves. As a result they want to exit,” said an official of the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB), the state regulator of ports and maritime activities.

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), on Thursday proposed to ease norms for infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs) as a way to encourage firms to unlock capital.

In September 2014, the capital markets regulator had allowed firms to launch real estate investment trusts (REITs) and InvITs to help cash-strapped developers get easier access to funds while creating a new investment avenue for institutions and wealthy individuals. However, infrastructure companies have been slow to respond as they sought a relaxation in rules and clarity on taxation.

L&T Finance Holdings plans to sell a 3.5-4 per cent stake to private equity (PE) investors and raise about Rs 1,000 crore as capital to fund growth in the next two years.

The L&T group’s financial services arm expects to complete the process this financial year.

BENGALURU: Chief operating officer and board member of Larsen & Toubro Infotech Chandrashekar Kakal has quit the company.

Kakal’s exit comes at a time when the privately-held technology arm of Larsen and Toubro is looking to build a team of senior executives before it goes public next year.

Larsen and Toubro today said it has appointed former Infosys executive Sanjay Jalona as the Managing Director and CEO of its IT arm, L&T Infotech.

Jalona will operate out of L&T Infotech's office in New Jersey, USA.

Mumbai: India’s biggest engineering and construction company Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) will monetize assets from time to time and “selectively bid for value-accretive projects in the roads and transmission line businesses”, said group executive chairman A.M. Naik in the company’s annual report for fiscal 2015.

Naik said L&T intends to unlock value of its information technology (IT) and technology services business.

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