A.S. Betgeri Construction Company, Class-I government contractor in Dharwad, Karnataka

A pour cannot wait.

Neither does a government deadline.

We have kept ours for twenty five years.

Dates that hold.

A.S. Betgeri Construction Company. Class-I government contractor in Dharwad, building public infrastructure across Karnataka since 2000.

Class-I government contractor

Dates that hold.

A pour cannot wait, and neither does a government deadline. We have kept ours for twenty five years. Four hundred projects, all of them public work.

The record

The numbers a tender committee asks for first.

0Years in operation
0Projects completed
0Government clientele
0Crore turnover

What we do

We build for government departments.

Every project on our books is public work, awarded by tender and handed over to a department. That is the whole business, and it has been for twenty five years.

01

Public works

Police stations, fire stations, jails, personnel quarters, university blocks and government offices. Tender compliance, quality assurance, full documentation, and handover on the date.

02

Commercial infrastructure

Industrial complexes, commercial towers and layouts, built as concrete or steel frame structures made to stand for generations rather than years.

03

Residential construction

Mass housing at scale and individual homes, taken from foundation through to finished interior and handed over ready to live in.

Why the dates hold

Most delays are a contractor waiting on somebody else.
We do not wait.

A government job is won on a programme and judged on a date. We run ours stage by stage, with our own plant and our own crews, so no part of the job sits waiting for somebody else to turn up.

Hold the button. As the pour fills, a job runs from award to handover.

  • 01Award and mobilisation
  • 02Foundation and substructure
  • 03Frame and slabs
  • 04Finishes and services
  • 05Testing and snagging
  • 06Handover on the date

Four hundred jobs have run this way. Stage six is the one the department remembers.

Government houses under construction at Talikoti with A.S. Betgeri aluminium centering in place.

Our own centering, standing on the Talikoti housing project

Housing blocks in frame on the 976 house project at Dharwad.
Frame and slabs, 976 houses at Dharwad
Illustration of a completed row of houses on the Hosdurga scheme.
700 houses at Hosdurga, illustration

What we build

Work of this size, already finished.

Aerial view of hundreds of completed police personnel quarters built by A.S. Betgeri at Tumkuru.

Police personnel quarters, Tumkuru

Hundreds of quarters handed over to the Karnataka State Police, built to department specification and finished on programme.

Completed
The main entrance building of Central Prison Shivamogga, built by A.S. Betgeri.

Central Jail, Shivamogga

The largest single project on our books, running now.

Ongoing
Rows of G plus three houses under construction at Talikoti with A.S. Betgeri aluminium centering in place.

600 G+3 houses, Talikoti

Built on our own aluminium centering, which is why the floors go up on schedule.

Ongoing
Housing blocks standing as bare concrete frames on the 976 house project at Dharwad.

976 houses, Dharwad

Ongoing
Vidya Bhavan at VTU Belagavi, a completed multi storey block with blue glazing.

Vidya Bhavan, VTU Belagavi

Completed
The completed classroom complex at UBDT Davangere.

Classroom Complex, UBDT Davangere

Completed

See all nineteen projects with photographs

Central Jail, ShivamoggaOngoing
976 houses, DharwadOngoing
Housing for All, YellapuraCompleted
Housing for All, Laxmeshwar, Mulgund and GadagCompleted
600 G+3 houses, TalikotiOngoing
700 houses, HosdurgaOngoing
Vidya Bhavan, VTU BelagaviCompleted
Classroom Complex, UBDT DavangereCompleted
Police Personnel Quarters, Gadag DistrictCompleted
KSWU VijayapuraCompleted
Skill Development Center, DandeliCompleted
Police Personnel Quarters, TumkuruCompleted
KIMS BuildingCompleted
SP Office, ChikballapuraCompleted
Raita Bhavan, Agricultural UniversityCompleted
Road work, MuddenhalliCompleted
Police stations across KarnatakaCompleted
Fire stations across KarnatakaCompleted

Plant and fleet

Nothing on this list is hired in after the award.

Engineers are told to check a contractor's machinery and manpower before anything else. Ours is owned outright, which is why mobilisation does not become the first delay.

RMC plantTransit mixersConcrete pumpTippers TractorsAjaxJCBHitachiYodha Crane machinesGeneratorsRollersMixers Electronic cutting and bindingAluminium centering sets

Mission and vision

What we are trying to do.

Our mission

To build public infrastructure of a standard the department can sign off without argument, through deep expertise, transparency and a refusal to move a completion date. What we hand over should be worth having long after we have gone.

Our vision

To be the contractor Karnataka calls first, and then India, by finishing work that meets the specification on quality, on safety and on the day we said.

Where we work: North Karnataka and across the state, including Hubli-Dharwad, Belagavi, Vijayapura, Sirsi, Dandeli, Tumkuru, Gadag, Shivamogga, Davangere, Chikballapura, Hosdurga, Talikoti, Yellapura, Laxmeshwar and Mulgund.

Who runs it

Three people you can call.

Portrait of Mr. Ashfaq S. Betgeri.

Mr. Ashfaq S. Betgeri

Chairman and Managing Director
Portrait of Mr. Faraz Betgeri.

Mr. Faraz Betgeri

Director
Portrait of Mr. Ifteqar Betgeri.

Mr. Ifteqar Betgeri

Director

Questions we get asked

Six questions, answered straight.

How do you hold a completion date?
Because we run the programme with our own plant, our own fleet and our own crews. The concrete comes from our own RMC plant and the centering sets are ours, so a hire queue never turns into the department's delay.
Is the machinery yours, or hired?
Ours. The RMC plant, the mixers, the tippers, the JCB and Hitachi machines, the cranes and the generators are owned outright. Mobilisation starts the week the work order lands.
What is your registration class and turnover?
Class-I government contractor, civil, registered with CE (C&B) North Dharwad and valid to April 2030. ISO 9001:2015 certified. Turnover above 130 crore.
Have you done work of this value before?
Yes. More than four hundred projects completed in twenty five years, including large single contracts, all of it for government departments.
Your work includes housing and commercial buildings. Is that still government work?
Yes, all of it. The housing is Housing for All and departmental quarters, the campuses are state universities, and the commercial buildings are government offices and stations. Our clientele is one hundred percent government, and it always has been.
Where do you work?
North Karnataka and across the state. Hubli-Dharwad, Belagavi, Vijayapura, Sirsi, Dandeli, Tumkuru, Gadag, Shivamogga, Davangere, Chikballapura and beyond.

Start a project

Call first. It is faster.

Tell us what needs building and where. If it is a tender enquiry, mention the department and the closing date.

#16 Venkateshwara Complex, PB Road, opposite BRTS bus stop, near NTTF, Dharwad 580001, Karnataka