RailTel, HG Infra and Interarch Shares Gain Up to 10% on Order Wins
Key Takeaways
- •RailTel received a one-year extension of its EPFO work order to provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service.
- •The extended RailTel engagement will run until February 9, 2027.
- •Shares of RailTel, HG Infra Engineering and Interarch gained as much as 10% in Indian trading on the day.
- •The CNBC-TV18 report did not disclose further details about the orders at HG Infra Engineering and Interarch.
Shares of RailTel Corporation of India, HG Infra Engineering and Interarch gained as much as 10% in Indian market trading, reacting to their respective order wins, according to a CNBC-TV18 Markets report published on August 19, 2026.
RailTel's EPFO work order extended
RailTel has received an extension of its work order from the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) for one year for providing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) through RailTel. The extension carries an existing engagement forward — rather than introducing a newly awarded contract — and is valid until February 9, 2027, which now marks the end of the current term for the engagement.
Background
RailTel Corporation of India is a public sector undertaking (PSU) under the Ministry of Railways, Government of India, and its shares trade on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and BSE. The company provides broadband telecom and information and communications technology (ICT) services, including data centre and cloud offerings.
EPFO is a statutory body under the Ministry of Labour and Employment that administers the Employees' Provident Fund Scheme, the Pension Scheme and the Deposit-Linked Insurance Scheme for India's organised sector workforce.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is a category of cloud computing in which fundamental computing infrastructure — servers, storage and networking — is delivered as an on-demand service, allowing organisations to use capacity without owning and maintaining physical hardware.
The CNBC-TV18 report also covered order wins at HG Infra Engineering and Interarch, whose shares were among those that gained as much as 10% on the day. The published report did not provide further details on those individual orders. HG Infra Engineering is a road and highway-focused infrastructure engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company, while Interarch Building Products is a manufacturer of pre-engineered steel buildings and structural steel solutions; both companies' shares trade on the NSE and BSE. For engineering and infrastructure firms of this size, order inflows are a closely watched indicator of the future execution pipeline, making individual contract announcements a routine trigger for same-day share movement in the segment.
Source: CNBC-TV18 Markets
