Vishwa Samudra Engineering is working on several large infrastructure projects, having completed several roads and runways in airports across India.
The company is planning to foray into tunnels, bridges, dams, and seaports in future as the infrastructure sector in the country is seeing rapid growth.
Having started operations in 2017, the company has executed road construction projects (national and State highways, urban and rural roads), marine structures, irrigation projects, and airport runways.
Hyderabad-based firm bids for infrastructure projects, builds teams on ground and executes projects using cost-effective and time saving techniques. It is currently executing two large projects in Kerala providing end-to-end solutions.
Vishwa Samudra Engineering MD Anil Yendluri told Telangana Today in an exclusive interview, “Our revenues currently stand at Rs 500-550 crore and we have got projects worth Rs 4,500 crore in hand, most of which have started, and some projects will begin this month. Of these, close to Rs 3,600 crore can be attributed to the NHAI projects in Kerala (Kannur and Kollam).”
He added, “In terms of funding our projects, we have not taken any funding from outside. It is entirely self-funded by our holding company. We are a zero-debt firm at this point. In future, we see opportunities in sectors such as airports, seaports, railways and metro rail projects.”
Core strengths
The company is specialised in soil stabilisation and full-depth recycling techniques, where the company uses existing soil for construction, thereby reducing the need for new stone aggregate to be brought in. This reduces the use of natural resources by over 80 per cent, an average that the company has been able to maintain across all its projects so far. This also reduces the project cost and time drastically.
“With our techniques, we are saving the environment, time and funds. We are using lesser aggregates and material. The governments are welcoming our technology. By using full-depth recycling, we are reducing new material usage. In locations such as Andaman & Nicobar, the savings are multi-fold,” Yendluri noted.
With the conventional construction process, a one km single lane road takes around 12-15 days to be completed whereas the company’s process takes close to 15 hours. Besides projects in other States, the company has built roads at NTR Marg and AS Rao Nagar in Hyderabad, using its techniques.
The company’s techniques have been validated and approved by Indian Roads Congress, Central Road Research Institute, IIT Chennai and Roorkee.
Project line-up
The company’s upcoming/ongoing projects include construction of a six-lane national highway of Thaliparambha – Muzhapilangad section of NH-17 (new NH-66) covering 29.948 km length, costing Rs 2,038 crore. It is also constructing a six-lane national highway of Kottukulangara – Kollam Bypass section of NH-17 (new NH-66) covering a length of 31.5 km, costing Rs 1,580 crore. Both projects are in Kerala.
The company is executing a 710-km road project in AP worth Rs 603 crore, 11-km landside roads at the greenfield international airport in Mopa, Goa worth Rs 39.59 crore, and stabilisation of Churachandpur to Tulvai Section of NH-102B Packages in Imphal, Manipur, with a length of 59.219 km, costing Rs 43.32 crore.
Anil Yendluri said, “Barring Covid-induced challenges such as ensuring supply chain intact, keeping up the safety and morale of workers, and executing the project smoothly during peak Covid months this year, we haven’t faced any other project implementation challenges in the last four years.”