Office of the Executive Engineer, National Highway Division, Gadchiroli Phone No. 07132-233382 Website: ‘www .mahapwd com (No.2. [5 /EPC/Chimur-Warora/POI/2022 | Date: {2 //2/2022 To, The Superintendent Engineer, Sub.: Reg: Ref.: NoOabons National Highway Circle, Nagpur Up-gradation of Umred - Bhisi - Chimur - Warora, NH-353E, Package - Il, Chimur to Warora, from Km. 47+700 to Km. 98+350 (Design Chainage) excluding 7.90km Length from Km. 52+700 to Km. 60+600 to two lane with paved shoulder configuration in the state of Maharashtra on EPC mode Extension of time- V SRK Letter No. SRK/CWRP/A/NH-353E/2022/102, Dated 13.12.2022, ‘Authority’s office letter no: RO/MUM/P-1068/EOT, Dated 08.05.2020 (EOT-1) ‘Authority letter no.: 222/EPC/Chi-War/POII/2020, Dated 20.01.2021 (EOT-II) |. Our office Letter No. 1158/EPC/Chi-War/POII/2022, Dated 10.05.2022. (EOT-II) Our office Letter No. 2345/EPC/Tender/2022-23, Dated 26.09.2022. (EOT-IV) MoRTEH Circular No- Covid/RoadMap/JS(H)/2020, Dated 11.04.2022 Mort&H Circular No. COVID-1 9/RoadMap/JS(H)/2020 (183777 ), Dated 01.12.2022 The Civil Package for the subjected work has been awarded to M/s. SRK Construction & Projects Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, vide Letter No. D-1/522/2017 dated 04.03.2017 EPC mode. The Contract Agreement has been signed between M/s. SRK Construction & Projects Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad and the Chief Engineer National Highway (P.W.) Navi Mumbai on 14.02.2017 with Contract price of Rs. 283.51 Cr. Further Appointed date has been declared as 04.03.2017. 1. The brief details of Project are as und Name of Contractor : | M/s. SRK Construction & Projects Pvt Ltd ] Contract Price = | Rs. 283.51 Cr. | LOA Issued on : | 18.02.2017 Date of Signing of Agreement [= | 04.03.2017 Construction Period > | 730 Days (24 Months) Maintenance Period : | 4 Years after Construction Period ‘Appointed Date 7 | 04.03.2017 Stipulated date of Completion : | 03.03.2019 | Name of Authority’s Engineer ? | M/s. Highway Engineering Consultant. (Services concluded on 30.09.2022)2. Brief Scope of Work: 7)_| Two lane with paved shoulder 38.65 Km. 2) | Four lane with divided carriageway | 2.90 Km. 3)_| Realignment 1.2 Km. 4)_| Major Junctions TNo. 5) | Minor Junctions 29 Nos. 6) | Rigid Pavement Length 42.75 Km. 7) | Toll Plaza TNo. 8) | Major Bridge (Widening) 1 No. 9) | CUP (New construction) 2Nos. 10) | Minor Bridge (Reconstruction) 18 Nos. 11) | Minor Bridge (Widening) 1No. 12) | Minor Bridge (New construction) 2 Nos. 13) | Slab Culverts (Reconstruction) 1 No. 14) | Slab Culverts (Widening) 3 Nos. 15) | Slab Culverts (New) TNo. | 16) | Hume Pipe Culverts (Reconstruction) 31 Nos. 17) | Hume Pipe Culverts (New) 20 Nos. 18) | Drain 6.4 Km 19) | Retaining Wall 16.3 Km 20) | Bus Bays with Shelter 22 Nos. 3. Current Status of Project (Physical): ee petition penis as per | Status as on date 14.12.2022 1) | Two Lane / Four Lane with | 42.75 Km Sub Grade - 38.23 Km Paved Shoulder GSB -36.10 Km PQC- I | 33.86 Km 2) CUP (New Construction) | 2. Nos. | 2.Nos. Completedhave continued with construction of the Project ony Highway and submitted to the Authority duly and validly prepared Stage Payment Statements for an amount not less than 30% of the Contract Price. 3) Major Bridge (widening) 01 No. 01 Completed |4) | Minor Bridge (Reconstruction) | 18 Nos. 15 Completed and 3 in Progress 5) _| Slab Culverts (Widening) 03 Nos. 02 Completed 6) | Slab Culverts (Reconstruction) | 01 Nos. 01 Completed 7) Hume Pipe Culverts 31 Nos. 31 Completed (Reconstruction) 8) | Hume Pipe Culverts (New) 20 Nos. 20 Completed 9) Drain 6.4 Km 6.090 Km Completed 10) | Retaining Wall 16.4 Km 14.858 Km Completed | 11) Bus Bays with Shelter 22 Nos 12 Completed 12) Junctions 30 Nos 20 Completed (29 Nos Minor Junction) | | (01 No Major Junction) I 4. Project Completion Schedule: St. milestones ee Ae No. nt | Status | Project Milestone-I shall occur on the date falling on the 180 day from the Appointed Date. Prior to the ; 1 | occurrence of Project Milestone-l, the contractor shall | 39.98 2017| Achieved have commenced construction of the Project Highway on | and submitted to the Authority duly and validly 26.03.2018 prepared Stage Payment Statements for an amount not | less than 10% of the Contract Price. | Project Milestone-Il shall occur on the date falling on | the 360° day from the Appointed Date. Prior to the i 2 | occurrence of Project Milestone-II, the Contractor shall | 26 97,2018) Achieved | 23.04.2019 | |Project Milestone-Ill shall occur on the date falling on ] the 540% day from the Appointed Date. Prior to the 3 | occurrence of Project Milestone-Ill, the Contractor shall | 27.93 291g) Achieved have continued with construction of the Project a Highway and submitted to the Authority duly and validly 24.01.2022 less than 70% of the Contract Price. The Scheduled Completion Date shall occur on the 4 | 730 day from the Appointed Date. On or before the | 93 93.2019] Not | | prepared Stage Payment Statements for an amount not | | | Scheduled Completion Date, the Contractor shall have ‘Achieved completed construction in accordance with this Agreement. The intended date for achievement of Project Milestone |, II & Ill as per Schedule J was 30.08.2017, 26.02.2018 & 27.08.2018 respectively. However, the contractor could not achieve the set forth milestone due to delay in Shifting of Utilities, Tree Cutting, COVID- 19 pandemic, land acquisition etc. The Progress of Work is slow due to COVID-19, 1%, 2" & 3 wave. Despite COVID-19 1%, 24 & 3° wave the contractor has done 82% physical progress of amount Rs. 232.6 Cr till November 2022. 5.Contractor’s Plea: Vide Letter No. SRK/CWRP/A/NH-353E/2022/102, Dated 13.12.2022 above, EPC Contractor has submitted proposal for EOT-IV of subjected work. Contractor has requested for extension of time for 274 days due to OCCURRENCE OF FORCE MAJEURE EVENT of COVID-19. 6.Review of EOT Proposal: i, The Authority had approved EOT-I of 484 days i.e. up to 30.06.2020 vide reference letter no. 02 in the base of project length affected by the ECO Sensitive Zone & Social Forest, Delay in Tree Felling, Utility Shifting (Water Pipe Line & Electrical), Delay in Land Acquisition in realignment portion and also work stopped due to during Assembly Election. fi, Authority had approved 2" EOT from 30.06.2020 to 31.12.2020 (Six Months) vide reference letter no. 03 due to the first wave of Covid-19. The EPC contractor was willing to complete the project in extended period but due to unexpected event of COVID -19 1% wave, work had been hampered badly, more than 60% of abours and staff were infected with COVID positive, so most of the labours and staff of the EPC contractor left the site unexpectedly, Contractor face many crises like, non-liquidity of funds and staff who left at site owing to scare from the Covid-19 pandemic. In pandemic most of the staff left the site due to restrictions imposed by Government, despite during that period contractor work with few workers continued and achieve the progress 7.63% of work amounting of Rs. 21.64 cr. from March’ 2020 to Dec.’ 2020. ifi, After that Authority had approved 3 EOT from 01.01.2021 to 30.06.2022 (Eighteen \Months) vide reference letter no. 04 due to 2° Wave of Covid-19 pandemic, started in March 2021. During 2° Wave of Covid-19, most of the staff scared and again left the site due to affected by the Covid-19 2 wave. In 2" wave of covid-19, EPC contractor continued the work with few workers and achieves 11.86% progress of work amounting Rs. 33.62 cr. from January 2021 to September’ 2021. iv. After the 2nd wave pandemic, 3rd wave hit India so drastically as 1st & 2nd wave of Covid-19, the new cases has increased exponentially since mid of January 2022 to till March 2022. Nearly all states of India are showing an upward trend with a rise in test positivity rate (TPR). Most the staffs got scared again and started to leave the site. Again, EPC Contractor was unable to continue the work in a smooth way. However, EPC Contractor have achieved about 17.5% physical progress of amounting Rs. 49.31 Cr. from October 2021 to June’ 2022. v. Further EOT-IV was granted from 01.07.2022 to 31.10.2022 due to COVID-19 vide letter no. 2345 / Tender /2022-23, on dated 26.09.2022. In this period EPC Contractor have achieved about 4% physical progress of amounting Rs. 11 Cr. from July’ 2022 to October 2022, despite serious illness of EPC Contractor Managing Director Mr. S. Ravi Kumar. Despite COVID-19 pandemic, the EPC contractor has achieved about 43% of work particularly from COVID-19 1% wave to till date and over all progress of 82% has been achieved till date. Now the EPC contractor is about to achieve the last Milestone-IV (100% of work), therefore it is advisable to consider extension of time. EE’s Conclusion: The proposal submitted by EPC Contractor under 10.5 has been considered. The contractor has submitted undertaking in form of supplementary agreement that he will not claim any extra amount in form of delay damages on account of idle men and machinary and other resources mobilized at project site or on any other account due to shifting of milestones price adjustment of contract agreement payable in respect of the stage payments certificates till the approved extension of time. In this particular work, issue of tree cutting due to work vicinity in Tadoba Tiger reseve and social forest issues delayed in providing hindrance free ROW to Contractor. There have been certain land disputes during the construction of structures due to which the work was struck up. Also, there is a stoppage in supply of murum due to NGT dated since 31.01.2022. Also contracting firm had informed that their Managing Director, Mr.S. Ravi Kumar has been indisposed due to cancer and this has resulted in breakdown of flow of financial decision. Thus, casting adverse effect on progress of work. Mr. Ravi Kumar unfortunately died and now his successor has again started the work which will be completed by 31.03.2023. Considering these facts, the extension of time limit up to 31-03-2023 as submitted in work program by the contractor.Revised milestone details: ; | Schedule Jas | Date asper Period of Milestone | As per Schedule | Date as a ae per Revision | Revision | shifting No. Jina. per CA. | proposal Proposal (days) 180 days from 387 days from | appointed date appointed date 1 = 30.08.2017 | *PP 26.03.2018 207 | (10% of contract | (10% of contract | value) value) 360 days from 787 days from | | appointed date inted date hg |S 26.02.2018 | “PPO! 30.04.2019 a7 (30% of contract (30% of contract value) | value) 540 days from 1109 days from appointed date | appointed date 3 27.08.2018 24.01.2022 | 1246 (70% of contract (70% of contract value) value) 730 days from 1214 days from appointed date appointed date 4 BR 03.03.2019 | “PP 31.03.2023 1489 (100% of (100% of | contract value) contract value) | Considering the above illustration extension is recommended up to 31-03-2023. pS WW wy Mishra) Executive Engineer National Highway Divisis Gadchiroli ay Copy to: 1) The Regional Officer, MoRTH, 5th Floor, Konkan Bhawan, Navi Mumbai for information please. 2) The Chief Engineer, National Highway (PW), 5¢” Floor, Konkan Bhawan, Navi Mumbai for information please. 3) The Superintending Engineer National Highway Circle, Nagpur for information please. 4) Sub Divisional Engineer, National Highway Subdivision, Chandrapur for information & necessary action.