J Kumar Launches Mumbai Metro Line-9’s 1st Pier Cap

A few hours ago, workers from J Kumar Infraprojects erected the first 9.5m wide pier cap for Mumbai Metro’s 11.38 km Line-9 (northern leg of Red Line) which will connect Dahisar East with Mira Bhayandar through 8 stations.

The roughly 60 MT pier cap was launched on top of pier 63 which is located right across from Thakur Mall near Pandurang Wadi Station’s site. Back in November – this 9 meter pier became the first of 491 piers to be cast for this line that connects Mumbai’s north-western suburbs.

The contract for Line-9’s construction under package CA-48 – a northern extension of the under construction 16.5 km Line-7 – was awarded to J Kumar Infraprojects by the MMRDA in January 2020 after they had emerged as the lowest bidder for this line and Line-7A (southern extension of Line-7) in September 2019.

Their scope includes the construction of 3 double-decker viaducts on Kashmira Road measuring 1.5 km, 1.1 km and 754m for vehicles and metro trains, and 8 stations at Dahisar East (new station box), Pandurang Wadi (interchange with Line-10), Miragaon, Kashigaon, Sai Baba Nagar, Meditya Nagar, Shaheed Bhaghat Singh Garden and Subhash Chandra Bose Ground.

Line-9 route map with the indicative location of stations between Dahisar E – Subhash Chandra Bose Ground – view Mumbai map & info
Photo Copyright: Sachin Kothawale
Capping off the pier and the year 2020! – Photo Copyright: Mumbai 2.0

The team had completed casting 100 piles on July 14, 500 piles on October 31, and has now achieved casting 700 piles per Sachin Kothawale on Twitter, who adds that 45 pile caps and 11 piers have been cast so far.

For more updates, check out the Mumbai section of The Metro Rail Guy!

– TMRG

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6 Responses to "J Kumar Launches Mumbai Metro Line-9’s 1st Pier Cap"

  1. Clevin Gomes says:

    This good news comes to a joy for Mira-Bhayander residents as this unlucky year comes to an end 😇😇😃

    Reply
  2. Prashant jha says:

    Any requirement safety officer

    Reply
  3. U says:

    TMRG why you didn’t include Meditya Nagar-Mbmc sports complex branch line(of line 9) in the map

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    • Clevin Gomes says:

      Bcoz it is not confirmed yet, but i think they have drop the plan for Branch Line coz Golden Nest area doesn’t have enough space to negotiate right turn. If they want than some residential buildings will have to be demolished.

      Reply
  4. Amit says:

    This Project implemention by MMRDA government Authority
    J kumar infra company just like only Contractor.
    pl do not share Wrong informations in public

    Reply
  5. Sss says:

    Jkumar is only contractor. Any metro works credit goes to @MMRDA.

    Reply

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