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K2 Infragen lands Rs 262 crore Indian Railways power project
GURUGRAM: K2 Infragen has kicked off 2026 with a big-ticket win. The infrastructure engineering firm has secured a Rs 262 crore contract from Indian Railways, marking one of its largest railway power projects to date and cementing its ambitions in the rail electrification space.
The letter of award covers the design, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of a 2x25kV AC 220/132/55kV traction substation, along with sectioning posts, sub-sectioning posts and SCADA systems, across the Luni (including) to Bhildi (excluding) double-line section of the Jodhpur division under North Western Railway.
The project has been awarded to K2 Infragen in a joint venture with Salasar Techno Engineering, with K2 Infragen as the lead partner holding a 74 per cent stake. The work will strengthen power infrastructure along the Luni–Bhildi corridor, a key railway stretch in Rajasthan.
Calling the order a turning point, K2 Infragen’s managing director, Pankaj Sharma, said the win signalled the company’s readiness to execute multiple projects worth more than Rs 250 crore simultaneously. He added that the contract would boost shareholder confidence and move K2 Infragen closer to India’s top tier of infrastructure players.
Calling it a validation of the company’s growth trajectory, K2 Infragen’s chief financial officer, Priyanka Pareek, said the order underlined its expanding role in India’s railway and transmission investment cycle. With the order book now crossing Rs 500 crore, she said K2 Infragen was entering a phase of aggressive but disciplined growth, backed by both revenues and profitability.
Founded in 2015, K2 Infragen is a publicly listed EPC player with operations spanning roads, railways, power transmission and distribution, civil construction, water infrastructure and renewable energy. Its client roster includes North Western Railway, NHAI, HSIIDC, Hindustan Copper, Vindhya Telelinks, Larsen & Toubro, Tata, HG Infra and GR Infra, with projects spread across more than ten states.
By spreading its bets across sectors and regions, the company has reduced dependence on any single domain while building scale and margins. With fresh orders, deeper rail credentials and a swelling pipeline, K2 Infragen is signalling one thing clearly: it wants a bigger seat at India’s infrastructure table-and it wants it fast.
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Samsung certifies 1,000 Maharashtra students in AI and coding
The South Korean electronics giant marks its first large-scale skilling push in the state, with women making up nearly half the national programme’s enrolment
PUNE: Samsung has put 1,000 students in Maharashtra through a certified training programme in artificial intelligence and coding, the largest such drive the South Korean electronics company has run in the state and a signal that corporate India’s skilling ambitions are moving well beyond the boardroom brochure.
The certifications were awarded under Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility programme, which launched in India in 2022 with the stated aim of democratising access to future-technology education. The 1,000 graduates were drawn from four institutions: 127 from Savitribai Phule Pune University, 373 from Pimpri Chinchwad University, 250 from D.Y. Patil University’s Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology and 250 from Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus. All completed training in either AI or coding and programming, the two disciplines Samsung has identified as the critical pillars of the digital economy.
The programme does not stop at technical training. Soft-skills development and career-readiness modules are baked into the curriculum, a deliberate attempt to close the gap between what universities teach and what employers actually want.
“India’s digital growth story will ultimately be shaped by the quality of its talent pipeline,” said Shubham Mukherjee, head of CSR and corporate communications at Samsung Southwest Asia. “As technologies like AI move from the periphery to the core of industries, skilling must evolve from basic training to building real-world capability. This milestone in Maharashtra reflects how industry and academia can come together to create a future-ready workforce that is both globally competitive and locally relevant.”
The Maharashtra drive sits within a rapidly scaling national effort. Samsung Innovation Campus trained 20,000 young people across India in 2025, hitting its stated target for the year. Women account for 48 per cent of national enrolments, a figure the company cites as evidence of its push for an inclusive technology ecosystem. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and the Telecom Sector Skill Council.
Samsung, which is marking 30 years in India this year, runs SIC alongside two other initiatives, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow and Samsung DOST, as part of a broader effort to build what it calls a generation of innovators with both the technical depth and the problem-solving mindset to thrive in a fast-moving digital world.
A thousand certified students is a tidy headline. Whether they find jobs that match their new skills is the harder question, and the one that will ultimately determine whether corporate skilling programmes like this one are genuine pipelines or well-photographed gestures.
