OREANDA-NEWS. Essar Projects ( EPL) and Engineering Projects (EPL) have jointly bagged a Rs79.84 crore contract from Gujarat Water Supply & Sewerage Board (GWSSB). Essar Projects' Senior Vice-President MS Ambegaonkar said the contract, awarded last week, envisages laying a 48.5km drinking water pipeline in the Saurashtra region of the state. The contract on engineering, procurement, construction and commission (EPC) basis involves fabrication, supply, external concrete coating, laying and jointing, including internal cement mortar lining of the bulk water transmission pipeline from Tankara village to Guaridad village in Rajkot district. It also envisages construction of two pumping stations along with the sumps with all civil, mechanical and instrumentation works, Mr Ambegaonkar added.