{"id":51,"date":"2026-09-29T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/sri-lanka-awards-maga-engineering-rs2-89bn-baseline-extension-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:59:09","slug":"sri-lanka-awards-maga-engineering-rs2-89bn-baseline-extension-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/sri-lanka-awards-maga-engineering-rs2-89bn-baseline-extension-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka awards Maga Engineering Rs2.89bn Baseline extension contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s Ministry of Transport, Highways and Urban Development has awarded a 2.89 billion rupees (excluding value added tax) contract to Maga Engineering (Pvt) Ltd to extend the Baseline Road by 0.86 kilometeres, minister Nalinda Jayatissa said.<\/p>\n<p>The Baseline Road Extension Project Phase III involves the improvement of the road section from Kirulapone Junction to Dutugemunu Street on the Colombo-Horana Road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stretch of road is planned to be upgraded to six lanes with infrastructure facilities such as an underpass, signalized intersections, pedestrian facilities, and drainage system improvements,\u201d Jayatissa told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>Bids were called for the work, 7 bids were received, and Maga Engineering was the lowest responsive bidder, Jayatissa said. (Colombo\/Sep29\/2026)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT \u2013 Sri Lanka\u2019s Ministry of Transport, Highways and Urban Development has awarded a 2.89 billion rupees (excluding value added tax) contract to Maga Engineering (Pvt) Ltd to extend the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}