147 million tunnels will be drilled in 5.7 billion

southeast The 13-kilometre Silvan Tunnel, which was built to irrigate 2 million 350 thousand acres of land between Batman Silvan and Diyarbakır Bismil, under the Anatolian Project (GAP), started swallowing money before it was inaugurated. For the tunnel, the General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSI) spent for the first time in 2012 147 million 183 thousand 595 TL. When the tunnel could not be completed over the years, it was put back into operation. Then the supply tender was launched. For this tender, the General Directorate of DSI paid 842 million 241 thousand 460 TL in 2019. It is reported that the tunnel will be completed in four years. However, the tunnel was still incomplete. This time, DSI held a new tender.

THE NAMES ARE KNOWN

The last tender was conducted by DSI on March 30, 2023. The companies that won the tender were also familiar. The company Limak Construction and MAPA Construction won the tender for the supply of the tunnel, whose contract was signed on May 5, 2023, with a price of TL 4,772,492,000. MAP İnşaat is affiliated with MNG Holding. First 147 million 183 thousand 595 TL were paid, then 842 million 241 thousand 460 TL and finally 4 thousand 772 million 492 thousand TL for the tunnel. Although the total amount paid for the tunnel reached 5 thousand 761 million 917 thousand TL, it has already increased 39 times the originally planned cost.