IRB Infrastructure Developers Limited, formerly IRB Infrastructure Developers Private Limited, is an Indian highway construction company headed by Virendra Dattatraya Mhaiskar. It was incorporated in 1998, with its headquarters in Mumbai. It is part of the IRB Group. IRB Infrastructure, which executed the country's first build-operate-transfer road project, is one of the largest operators of such ventures. Currently it has about 3,404 lane Km operational and about 2,330 lane Km under development. Among its notable projects are the Mumbai Pune Expressway and the Ahmedabad Vadodara Expressway. In 2012, IRB acquired Tamil Nadu based BOT road builder MVR Infrastructure and Tollways for 1.30 billion.
Projects
IRB Infrastructures executed India's first ever BOT project, the Thane-Bhivandi Bypass. Over the years, BOT became their strength, and turned into one of the largest BOT portfolios in the country with a total length of around 12,000-lane km. In its kitty, IRB has difficult projects like the four-laning of the Goa-Karnataka border, Kundapur section of NH17, Agra-Etawah Bypass project, Udaipur-Rajasthan NH8 project, and Kaithal to Rajasthan NH152 project. Mumbai-Pune Expressway IRB Infrastructure acquired the Mumbai-Pune Expressway and the Mumbai-Pune National Highway, which was concluded under the supervision of Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation. Chittorgarh And Gulabpura IRB achieved financial closure for its BOT project from Chittorgarh and Gulabpura. The project is an expansion of the 124.87-km section on NH79, converting from a four-lane to six-lane expressway. The concession period of this project is 20 years from the appointed date, including 910 days of construction, creating smoother transit. The total funding for the project by company will be 6.9 billion and by SPV tied banks will be 14 billion. Kaithal Rajasthan Project IRB Infrastructure developed the Kaithal-Rajasthan project. The 166.26 km-long highway became operational in 2017, and has 20.90 km of service road, 18 pedestrian underpasses, 5 vehicular underpasses, 5 flyovers, 13 small bridges, 71 intersections, 241 culverts and railways over bridges. The cost of production for project was 22.9 billion, including a viability gap funding of Rs2.34 billion.
Ahmedabad -Vadodara
On July 2011, IRB Infrastructure signed an agreement to develop a 102.3 km section in the Ahmedabad-Vadodara NH8 into six lanes from the existing two lanes. The project also included improvement of a 93.302 km section of the existing Ahmedabad – Vadodara Expressway, on a Design Building Finance Operate and Transfer basis.
HAM projects
In March 2018, IRB Infrastructure won two hybrid annuity projects under NHDP phase IV in the state of Tamil Nadu, which included the four laning of NH-45A Puducherry to Poondiyankuppam and Poondiyankuppam to Sattanathapuram at a cost of Rs 2169 crore at a cost of Rs 1296 crore. The construction period is 730 days and the operation period is 15 years for the said projects. The company also received a letter of award on from National Highways Authority of India for a hybrid annuity project worth Rs1,640cr under the National Highways Development Project phase VI in Gujarat. The order came after the company had emerged as the preferred bidder for the construction of the eight-lane Vadodara Kim expressway from Padra to Vadodara section of the Vadodara-Mumbai Expressway in Gujarat. In 2009, IRB Infra won the bid to develop the greenfieldSindhudurg Airport in the Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra on a build-operate-transfer basis. IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd. has been acknowledged for its overall excellence and proficiency in the form of various awards and accolades. Virendra D. Mhaiskar, Chairman and Managing Director of IRB, was conferred with the “Young Turk of the Year” award at the 6th Edition of CNBC TV 18 India Business Leader Awards on 11 December 2010 at Mumbai. The company was given the CNBC TV 18 Essar Steel Infrastructure Excellence Award for the second time for its high quality work implemented on the Bharuch to Surat section of NH-8 under Highways and Bridges Category. The company also won the CNBC TV 18 Essar Steel Infrastructure Excellence Award in the Highways & Flyovers category for Mumbai-Pune section of NH-4 in 2009. IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd. signed a contract worth Rs 2,100 crore from NHAI for a six-lane project in Rajasthan and Gujarat. The project is to be developed on design, built, finance, operate and transfer under the National Highways Development Programme phase V. IRB Infrastructure Ltd won the Construction Times 2017 Award under the Best Executed Highway Project of the Year category for building the Ahmedabad–Vadodara Expressway Project.
Controversy
In April 2018, Virendra Mhaiskar, the chairman and managing director of IRB Infrastructure, and all other officials got a clean chit from CBI with regards to any sort of involvement in the murder of RTI activist Satish Shetty. They were summoned in May 2012 by CBI, suspecting a connection with the case. During the investigation, CBI had asked Virendra Mhaiskar and other suspects to undergo a polygraph test. Mhaiskar along with the company officials had to undergo the polygraph test.
