STRABAG Wins Delhi – Meerut RRTS’ TVS & ECS Package 23

The winner for another RRTS systems package is now known. STRABAG International…

13 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 5 Comments
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SECON Begins Mumbai – Nagpur High Speed Rail’s LiDAR Survey

SECON – Helica JV on Friday started light detection and ranging (LiDAR)…

13 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 14 Comments
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Afcons’ TBM S-1264 Starts Tunneling for Bangalore Metro at RMS

Engineers from Afcons Infrastructure today commissioned tunnel boring machine…

12 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 14 Comments
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SYSTRA Wins Bangalore Metro Phase 2’s UTO Consultancy

A consortium of SYSTRA – SYSTRA MVA Consulting (India) Pvt. Ltd. has been…

12 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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Mumbai Metro Line-4A’s 1st U Girder Launched by J Kumar

In the early morning hours of Thursday, J Kumar Infraprojects launched the first…

12 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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27 Bidders for Delhi Dehradun Expressway Phase 2’s Packages 2 & 3

April 2 Update: NHAI has cancelled the bidding process without offering a reason…

12 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 6 Comments
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Sadbhav Begins Surat Metro’s Test Piling Work

Engineers from Sadbhav Engineering Ltd. – SP Singla Constructions Pvt. Ltd….

12 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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Bids Invited for Indore Metro’s Super Corridor Route

Madhya Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (MPMRC) on Wednesday invited tenders…

11 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Indore Metro ⋅ 21 Comments
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18 Bidders for Delhi – Amritsar Expressway’s 4 Packages in Punjab

Eighteen firms have submitted a total of 47 bids to construct 4 civil packages of the roughly 650 km Delhi – Amritsar – Katra (DAK) Expressway‘s…

10 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 20 Comments
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MMRDA Invites Bids for Mumbai Metro Line-4’s Telecom Contract

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) today invited bids for the telecommunications contract for Mumbai Metro’s 32.32 km Line-4 and…

09 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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HFCL Wins Kanpur & Agra Metros’ Telecom Contract

Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC) on Monday awarded HFCL Ltd. with the telecommunications contract for the 32.385 km Kanpur Metro and…

09 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro, Kanpur Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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6 Bidders for Varanasi – Howrah HSR’s LiDAR & Alignment Design

Six design and engineering firms have submitted bids to prepare the final alignment design including an aerial LiDAR survey for the Detailed Project Report…

09 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 11 Comments
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L&T Launches Delhi Meerut RRTS Package 3’s 1st Segment

On this past Saturday and Monday evenings, Larsen & Toubro started launching 10.5 m wide precast segments at two different locations for constructing…

09 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 4 Comments
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GHV Wins Delhi – Mumbai Expressway’s Packages 27 & 28

May 27 Update: GHV has been awarded Package 28th’s contract. March 8 Original Post: GHV India on Friday emerged as the lowest bidder for constructing…

08 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 5 Comments
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 58.68 km
• Delhi: 24 December 2002 – 351.2 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 72.2 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 46.5 km
• Jaipur: 3 June 2015 – 12 km
• Chennai: 29 June 2015 – 54.1 km
• Kochi: 19 June 2017 – 27.9 km
• Lucknow: 6 September 2017 – 22.9 km
• Hyderabad: 29 November 2017 – 67 km
• Noida-Gr. Noida: 25 January 2019 – 29.7 km
• Ahmedabad: 6 March 2019 – 37.9 km
• Nagpur: 8 March 2019 – 38.2 km
• Kanpur – 29 December 2021 – 8.7 km
• Pune: 6 March 2022 – 29.7 km
• Navi Mumbai: 17 November 2023 – 11.1 km
• Agra: March 6 2024 – 5.2 km

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