HFCL Wins Kanpur & Agra Metros’ Telecom Contract

Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC) on Monday awarded HFCL Ltd. with…

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…

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…

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…

08 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 5 Comments
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Mumbai Metro Line-5’s 1st U Girder Launched by Afcons

Moments ago, a crew from Afcons Infrastructure and Tara Chand Logistics erected…

07 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 13 Comments
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KCC & CDS Win Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway’s Packages 1-3

KCC Buildcon and CDS Infra Projects on Friday emerged as the lowest bidders…

06 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 52 Comments
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KCC Wins Bangalore – Chennai Expressway’s PH1 Package 3

KCC Buildcon Ltd. today emerged as the lowest bidder for constructing the 260.85…

05 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 5 Comments
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5 Bidders for Mumbai–Ahmedabad HSR’s Bridge Package P1C

After receiving 4 bids for Package P1B yesterday, National High Speed Rail Corporation…

05 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 0 Comments
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L&T Begins Piling for Mumbai – Ahmedabad HSR’s Package C6

Larsen & Toubro recorded another major construction milestone today by starting piling works at Rayka Village near Vadodara for the 87.569 km Package…

05 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 14 Comments
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5 Bidders for Patna Metro Depot’s Ballasted Tracks

Five firms have submitted bids for the standard gauge ballasted track-work contract of Patna Metro’s New ISBT Depot after Delhi Metro Rail Corporation…

05 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Patna Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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TBM S81 Begins Tunneling for Pune Metro at Swargate

Engineers from Gulermak – Tata Projects Ltd. JV on Tuesday commissioned tunnel boring machine S81, the third and final machine of Pune Metro’s Phase…

05 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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CRRC Breaks Ground on Indian Metro Coach Plant in Sri City

CRRC Corporation’s subsidiary CRRC India on Wednesday held a bhoomi puja and ground breaking ceremony in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh to launch construction…

05 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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Soil Testing Underway for Kanpur Metro’s 2nd Underground Section

Techpro Engineers Pvt. Ltd. has over the past couple weeks been conducting geotechnical soil investigation for Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC)…

05 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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4 Bidders for Mumbai–Ahmedabad HSR’s Bridge Package P1B

Four construction firms / consortia have submitted bids to build 4 prestressed concrete (PSC) and 7 steel truss bridges for the 508.17 km Mumbai – Ahmedabad…

04 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 8 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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