Building India

Jalandhar Reddy is following in his father’s footsteps at KNR constructions limited and making his own impression on the company’s growth.

- Wendy Kay

Unlike most other founding fathers of the US who used their proficiencies in law, medicine and accounting, Benjamin Franklin was also renowned for his entrepreneurial skills in small business. In fact, the scientist, philosopher and inventor has been famously attributed to declaring “time is money”, a doctrine Jalandhar Reddy swears by for success in India’s construction industry. While the Executive Director of KNR Constructions Limited (KNRCL) concedes that bidding for a project obviously needs an important strategy, in the end it’s the delivery that matters.

“And that’s where KNRCL scores,” he reveals. “What drives us is the postulate ‘Time is money’ and that’s the key to the success of the company. When it comes to bidding for a project, we are just one among all the bidders, but when it comes to the execution of the job, we are definitely very different.

“We own the entire range of equipment required for execution and independently source most of the raw materials. Aggregate is the heart of any project and by undertaking all the quarry operations with our own resources, including people and machinery, all the core areas are kept under our control so that the targets are achieved ahead of schedule, duly optimising the costs of execution.”

KNRCL is a medium-sized project development company offering engineering, procurement and construction services and build-operate-transfer projects, playing a vital role in India’s rapidly expanding infrastructure sector. The company’s underlying strengths lie in major, state-of-the-art engineering projects such as highways, flyovers and bridges as well as irrigation and urban water infrastructure management.