It's work as usual for L&T in 95% of West Asia projects

Most work suspension voluntary for safety of staff; At two sites, customers asked for a halt

- Nehal Chaliawala

India's largest infrastructure and engineering firm, Larsen & Toubro Ltd, which derives over a third of its revenue from West Asia, has said that most of its over 100 construction projects in the region are progressing as usual, with work halted at only a handful of sites.

“About 5% of the sites are suspended or disrupted because they are close to the army bases,” Subramanian Sarma, deputy managing director and president at L&T, said in a press briefing on Saturday, the company’s first major status update since the US-Israel-Iran war broke out on 28 February.

Most of the work suspension has been voluntary, he said, to ensure the safety of the company’s staff. At two sites, customers recommended temporarily halting work, he added.

The company has not yet evacuated any staff from the region, but it is also not sending new people there from India at the moment, he said. The engineering firm has about 8,000 staff, 2,000 family members, and 20,000 contract workers in the region.