Turkish firm axed from contract for Mizoram road tunnel project | India News
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.” The move comes in the wake of Ankara’s support to Pakistan during India’s Operation Sindoor. 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.
