R/TAMIL NADU SOR 2023-24
Rates for Earthwork Excavation Other Than Pipe Laying Works and Open Wells rates
29 rates for earthwork excavation other than pipe laying works and open wells items from the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board, effective 2024-01-23.
- Items
- 29
- Lowest rate
- ₹4.22
- Highest rate
- ₹1,582.50
- Effective from
- 2024-01-23
S-01/RATE ITEMS29 ITEMS
Rates for Earthwork Excavation Other Than Pipe Laying Works and Open Wells rates in the Tamil Nadu Water Works Schedule of Rates 2023-24 run from ₹4.22 to ₹1,582.50. Transcribed from Tamil Nadu TWAD Board — Standard Schedule of Rates 2023-24, effective 23 January 2024. For reference only: verify against the official source before pricing a bid.
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29 items. Scroll the table to browse
| Description | Unit | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sand, silt or other loose soil, wet sand or silt not under water, light black cotton soil, sandy loam and ordinary soil including excavated earth SS 20 A | Cu.m | 81.97 |
| 10 | Medium Rock and Dense Medium Rock not requiring blasting | Cu.m | 293.15 |
| 11 | Earthwork excavating and depositing on bank with an initial lead of 10 metres and initial lift of 2 metres inExtra for every additional 10 metres lead or part thereof over the initial lead | Cu.m | 13.55 |
| 13 | Breaking clods, consolidating and sectioning | Cu.m | 6.64 |
| 14 | Breaking clods, consolidating and sectioning the earth scooped by bull dozers | Cu.m | 20.61 |
| 16 | Benching old embankment slopes 45cm x 45cm | Sq.m | 4.22 |
| 17 | Puddle wall work | Cu.m | 185.03 |
| 18 | Turfing in slopes including watering and fixing with initial lead upto 50m | Sq.m | 38.96 |
| 19.b | Refilling with excavated soil (other than sand) complying with the standard specification for filling in foundation and basement | Cu.m | 38.95 |
| 19a | Refilling with excavated sand complying with standard specification for filling in foundation and basement | Cu.m | 34.20 |
| 2 | Sand, silt or other loose soil, wet sand or silt not under water, light black cotton soil, sandy loam and ordinary soil including excavated earth SS 20 B | Cu.m | 74.85 |
| 3 | Slush and silt under water upto 0.75 metre depth requiring the aid of baskets and vessels SS 20 B | Cu.m | 93.60 |
| 4 | Trimming the bed and side slope of the bank in all soils except hard rock upto a thickness of 7.5 cm and making it ready to receive the concrete | Sq.m | 18.98 |
| 5 | Sectioning during forming bunds when earth moving machinery, lorries and rollers are used for consolidation | Cu.m | 13.90 |
| 6 | Hard stiff clay, stiff black cotton, hard red earth, shales, murram, gravel, stoney earth and earth mixed with small size boulders SS 20A | Cu.m | 119.29 |
| 7 | Hard stiff clay, stiff black cotton, hard red earth, shales, murram, gravel, stoney earth and earth mixed with small size boulders SS 20B | Cu.m | 112.05 |
| 8 | Soft disintegrated rock, laterite, soft rock or kankar, not requiring blasting | Cu.m | 166.90 |
| 9 | In loose boulders in excavation of various sizes 150mm to 625mm | Cu.m | 265.10 |
| a | By hand roller | Cu.m | 22.93 |
| a | Hard rock measured in solid including blasting and stacking | Cu.m | 791.78 |
| b | By power roller including hire charges | Cu.m | 38.96 |
| b | Removing hard rock by wedging chiselling and trimming to proper shape where blasting is prohibited | Cu.m | 1,582.50 |
| c | Medium rock and dense medium rock requiring blasting | Cu.m | 402.74 |
| f | Benching hard rock upto an average 10cm depth | Sq.m | 766.48 |
| g | Drilling holes in hard granite 32mm diameter | Rm | 214.55 |
| h | Drilling holes in hard granite 40mm diameter | Rm | 252.72 |
| i | Drilling holes in hard granite 45mm diameter | Rm | 296.26 |
| j | Drilling holes in hard granite 50mm diameter | Rm | 355.30 |
| k | Drilling holes in hard granite 75mm diameter | Rm | 403.80 |
S-02/SOURCE RECORD2023-24
- ISSUED BY
- Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board
- EFFECTIVE
- 2024-01-23
- RETRIEVED
- 2026-07-29
S-03/CHAPTERS10 MORE
Other chapters in this schedule
- Rates for Building Materials74
- Rates for Earthwork Excavation Pipe Laying Works for Water Supply and Sewerage Works8
- Rates for Electrical Items223
- Rates for Electromechanical Items12
- Rates for Labour80
- Rates for Materials28
- Rates for Miscellaneous Items182
- Rates for Other Construction Materials194
- Rates for Pumpsets76
- Rates for Works8
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