RailTel wins Rs 14.09 crore UP medical university contract for five-year hospital IT programme

RailTel Corporation of India has secured a domestic work order worth Rs 14.09 crore, including Tax, from Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences for implementation and pay-per-use operations of an Enhanced Hospital Information Management System.

The five-year programme is to be completed by September 28, 2031. RailTel received the work order at 4:30 pm on September 21, 2026, according to its stock exchange disclosure.

The mandate involves hiring an agency for IT projects and has been described by RailTel as a single, committed and outcome-linked programme. The company said neither its promoter, promoter group nor group companies has any interest in Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences. It also clarified that the contract does not constitute a related-party transaction.

While the order is modest relative to RailTel’s overall operations, it extends the company’s presence in public-sector digital healthcare systems. The Rs 14.09 crore contract is equivalent to about 0.33 per cent of RailTel’s FY2025-26 revenue from operations of Rs 4,277.48 crore. Since the contract is spread over five years and includes tax, its financial contribution is likely to be recognised over the execution and operational period rather than as an immediate revenue addition.

The project is aligned with RailTel’s broader IT, cloud and digital-services portfolio, which increasingly supplements its legacy telecom infrastructure business. Its project work services include enterprise IT and IT-enabled services for government bodies, Railways and other institutions, alongside telecom, signalling and network deployment projects.

RailTel already has experience in hospital information systems through Indian Railways. Its investor presentation stated that the company’s Hospital Management Information System had been deployed across 716 railway hospitals and health units. The new university mandate therefore builds on an existing healthcare technology capability, although the disclosure does not provide a break-up between implementation revenue and recurring pay-per-use operations.

The company has been expanding its digital infrastructure offerings around connectivity, cloud, data centres, cybersecurity and applications. In FY2025-26, project work services generated Rs 2,776.79 crore of revenue, accounting for nearly two-thirds of RailTel’s total revenue from operations. However, project work carries lower profitability than telecom services and remains dependent on timely execution, commissioning and customer acceptance.

RailTel’s latest quarterly financial data showed net sales of Rs 893.27 crore, up 20.09 per cent year on year, while profit after tax stood at Rs 65.78 crore, marginally lower than Rs 66.10 crore in the year-ago quarter. The company’s operating performance can be influenced by the timing of project milestones, equipment procurement, commissioning and client approvals.

As of 2:20 pm on September 22, 2026, RailTel shares were trading at Rs 263.50, up 1.19 per cent from the previous close of Rs 260.40. The stock was about 33.8 per cent below its 52-week high of Rs 398.00, while remaining around 7.2 per cent above its 52-week low of Rs 245.90.

Over the past year, the stock has declined 28.76 per cent, compared with a 3.73 per cent fall in the BSE 500, indicating an underperformance of about 25 percentage points. Execution of smaller recurring digital-service mandates such as the medical university programme could support RailTel’s effort to diversify its project portfolio, though the immediate financial impact of this contract is limited by its size and multi-year tenure.

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