Three companies qualify to build Meghalaya Assembly

Three companies that have qualified to construct the Meghalaya Assembly building after technical evaluation and the financial bid will be opened later this week, Speaker A T Mondal said.
Meghalaya has been without a permanent assembly building since 2001 after the heritage edifice which housed it was gutted.
The high power committee under Mondal has identified and taken into possession an 80 acre plot at the New Shillong Township for building the new Assembly at an estimated cost of Rs 141 crore.
The three companies which have qualified are Shapoorji Pallonji, Simplex Infrastructure Private Limited and Shree Gautum Construction Company Limited, Mondal said.

The high power committee gave its nod for the opening of the financial bid on October 25 and the work would be allotted to the lowest bidder, he said.
"Once the lowest bidder is awarded the contract and it is signed, we are hoping that the construction work will start by the next month," he said.
The structural design of the building has been done by Design Associate and was approved by IIT-Roorkee. It is expected to withstand a certain amount of seismic activity, Mondal added.