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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…

05 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 15 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

04 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 8 Comments
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3 Bidders for Mumbai Monorail’s 10 New Rakes

BHEL, Titagarh and Medha are the three rolling stock manufacturers that have…

03 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro, Other ⋅ 8 Comments
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Afcons Conducts Pile Load Tests for Ahmedabad Metro’s Phase 2

Over the past month, Afcons Infrastructure and Cimec Technologies have been…

03 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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4 Qualify for Surat Metro’s General Engineering Consultant Service

March 3 (8 PM IST) Update: My original post announced Nippon – RITES –…

03 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 73.1 km
• Delhi: 24 December 2002 – 353.3 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 94.3 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 79.5 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 – 60.7 km
• Nagpur: 8 March 2019 – 38.2 km
• Kanpur – 29 December 2021 – 16 km
• Pune: 6 March 2022 – 31.2 km
• Navi Mumbai: 17 November 2023 – 11.1 km
• Agra: March 6 2024 – 5.2 km
• Indore: May 31 2025 – 5.8 km
• Patna: October 6, 2025 – 3.2 km
• Bhopal: December 21, 2025 – 6.2 km

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