Success story and prestigious projects of G R Infraprojects Ltd.
Excerpts of the interview with Mr. Vinod Kumar Agarwal, MD of G R Infra on success factors in their prestigious projects. Please tell us something about your company? At G R Infra Projects Ltd, we
Excerpts of the interview with Mr. Vinod Kumar Agarwal, MD of G R Infra on success factors in their prestigious projects.
Please tell us something about your company?
At G R Infra Projects Ltd, we have 20+ years of experience in executing road focused EPC projects, comprising of construction and development of state and national highways, bridges, culverts, flyovers, airport runways and rail over bridges. In the last 12 years itself we have executed more than 100+ projects in last 12 years. We have, since inception, focused on the roads EPC sector which has given us a distinct advantage of mitigating risks associated with the dynamics of road construction sector while simultaneously establishing our credentials as an EPC player capable of implementing a variety of road construction projects that involve varying degrees of complexity. We believe that our focused approach will enable us to continue to take advantage of future market opportunities and expand into new markets and when combined with our technical experience and pricing, be critical in enabling us to compete against other players in this industry.
What are the recent and ongoing projects at GR Infra?
Our ongoing projects comprise of23 road EPC projects across the states of Punjab, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur and Madhya Pradesh. We have, in the past, executed projects in Jharkhand and Meghalaya providing us with an experience of executing projects across diverse geographic locations in India with varied degrees of complexities like construction in high traffic and high-density areas, construction of tunnels in hilly terrain and slope protection and rock fall protection due to high rainfall.
Among the ongoing projects, which all do you consider to be the prestigious and successful?
We consider the 6-laning of Handia -Varanasi section of NH-2 in State of Uttar Pradesh under NHDP Phase-V on Hybrid Annuity Mode to be a significant and prestigious project because, this is the Highest Single Value Contract with contract value of Rs. 2447.00 Crores and 1st year O&M cost of Rs. 19.87 Crores.
The other project that is of significance for GR Infra is the Four laning of Gundugolanu-Devarapalli- Kovvuru section of NH-16 in the State of Andhra Pradesh under Bharatmala Pariyojana on Hybrid Annuity mode with a contract value of Rs. 1827.00 Crores, because this project has opened doors for us into the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Both our above projects have been successful and progressing well.
What according to you are key success factors for these two projects?
We want to attribute our success of these two projects to our supplier partners and more particularly Amman India.
One of the key success factors is that we did not lose out on our productive hours by even a minute. I would attribute this high productivity, which was instrumental to our success of these two projects, to Ammann India and their employees.
Excellent team work, pro-active approach and customer centricity of Ammann team members plays a significant role in seamless execution of these two projects at Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
Can you please give us more specific inputs on the support from Ammann India, which you say has been instrumental to your success at your prestigious projects?
It will not be out of place to call out the helping attitude of Ammann India people. As you may know, people make all the difference. To give you more specifics, let me list some of the outstanding work of Ammann India team that enabled seamless performance of our equipment.
- a) The Ammann customer support team has been very cordial and co-operative in extending on-site parts support.
- b) Ammann India deployed trained operators and technicians at site, which helped us significantly in becoming productive, instantly.
- c) Ammann Engineers have been monitoring the condition of plants on regular basis.
- d) The plants were maintained pro-actively, thereby ensured zero breakdowns.
- e) The best part is, the maintenance routines were scheduled by Ammann India in such a way, that our productive hours were not impacted at all.
The suggestions given by Ammann India towards pro-active maintenance were very helpful and gave our team a new perspective on how to achieve more with Ammann products.
That sounds great. Pls tell us about the Amman India products that you used for your prestigious and successful projects?
Ammann India supplied us two plants ABA 260 and ABA 180 and these plants are deployed in both of our prestigious projects.
We wish to place on record, these plants functioned seamlessly and backed by their excellent after sales support, enabled seamless implementation of these projects.
Ammann India offers wide range of products for road constructions. Having used Amman India plants for our prestigious projects, we now have full confidence on their product range.
We have plans to purchase more plants from Amman India for our other projects as well.
Thank you sir, for your time. Your inputs will be of great value to our readers. We wish you greater successes in the future.
– Vinod Kumar Agarwal,
MD of G R Infra on success factors
in their prestigious projects
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