Work Begins on Patna Metro’s Phase 1 Project
As I mentioned in Agra Metro’s post the other day, work to facilitate the construction of the 30.91 km Patna Metro Phase 1 project has in fact also started!
Over the past two months, NCC Ltd. has been mobilizing men & machinery, barricaded a portion of Line-2 on Bypass Road, and started conducting a new round of geotechnical soil investigation to revalidate findings of a previous investigation by CEG. In fact they’ve gone a step further by deploying a piling rig in Bhoothnath neighborhood to begin the first step of construction work.
NCC had emerged as the lowest bidder in August-end, beating 3 firms, for the project’s 6.107 km Malahi Pakri – New ISBT (Package PC-01) section of the 14.05 km Line-2 which will connect Patna Junction Railway Station – New ISBT through 14 stations.
The contract to NCC from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is valued at Rs. 552.93 crore and comes with a 30 month deadline. Their scope of work includes building this 6.107 km section’s viaduct and 5 elevated stations at Malahi Pakri, Khemni Chak, Bhoothnath, Zero Mile and New ISBT. It also includes the construction of a viaduct leading to the New ISBT Depot, as well as a small rake-interchange viaduct at Khemni Chak connecting to the 16.85 km Line-1.
From what I hear NCC has subcontracted piling works to a company called IB Infrastructure for an undisclosed value. They’ve deployed a new SANY piling rig at Bhootnath Station’s site –
Back in July, Quality Buildcon had emerged as the lowest bidder for building the New ISBT Depot which will serve both Line-1 and Line-2. Per a recent report in the Dainik Bhaskar, land acquisition for its 71 acre site will begin next week.
A list of all Patna Metro Phase 1 tenders (pre-construction and civil) and their status’ can be viewed here.
It’s only a matter time for piling work to begin in Patna and Agra, and I can’t wait to see the friendly race that ensues. Whenever it begins, I’ll move the Patna section on the site’s menu from the ‘Approved’ to the ‘Under Construction’ sub-menu.
For more updates, check out the Patna section of The Metro Rail Guy!
– TMRG
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼
Q1)So, when can we expect final civil construction work to begin??
Q2)How many stations can by expect by 2024 to be operational??
Q3)can you please replace Wikipedia with your website?(because Wikipedia on Patna metro is full of all false information)
1) Let’s see. They will likely perform test piling before actual piling work
2) In 2024 – these 5 plus the 3 others (Mithapur, Ramkrishna Nagar & Jaganpura) on Line-1 if package PC-04 is awarded soon
https://themetrorailguy.com/2020/11/20/4-bidders-for-patna-metro-line-1s-elevated-section/
3) I’d like to stay away from Wikipedia LOL. That place is nice for quick and dirty info, but terrible.
What is the use of piling rig most probably In the project??
It’s the most important part of every metro project. This machine helps to make foundation base for the metro structure by making deep holes with the help of piling rig, then the holes will be filled with small rebar cage and concrete. You cannot even make a house without foundation. So, this one is very important
Hi TMRG,
In your this article you said that this is going to be a friendly match between Agra and patna metro …But I think friendly match between Agra and patna metro is inappropriate as we can see patna don’t even have wider road to pile the pillars on time where as we Agra have well maintained and wider road.
Patna have even wider roads than lucknow are you mad or what I have been to all those city I am from varanasi
What about under ground sections of patna metro.
Patna metro is ahead of agra in tendering process
Bid submission for that (Package UG-03) was moved to December 4 and now to December 21. Will share bidder names that evening, if they don’t move it again.
Patna Metro could have been underground. In most of the cities in other countries Metro means UNDERGROND
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