Author Archive for: TMRG

Afcons Awarded Mumbai Metro Line-5’s Thane – Bhiwandi Section

This news is dated, but just putting this out here for the record 🙂 On January…

28 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Nagpur Metro’s Aqua Line-2 to Open on Jan 28

An 11 km stretch of Nagpur Metro’s 19.4 km Line-2 (Aqua Line) will…

27 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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NCC Launches 1st Set of U-Girders for Mumbai Metro Line-2B

This Saturday morning, workers from NCC with assistance from Amrik Singh &…

27 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Reliance – Astaldi JV Launches 1st U-Girder for Mumbai Metro Line-4

In the early morning hours of January 22, workers from Reliance Infrastructure…

24 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Afcons Begins Casting U-Girders for Kanpur Metro Line-1

On Sunday afternoon, Afcons Infrastructure began casting 27m long U-girders…

22 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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L&T Awarded Final Track Order for Mumbai Metro Line-3

In a January 15 filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange, Larsen & Toubro announced…

21 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Nippon Koei-Aarvee-Balaji JV Awarded Chennai Metro PH2 GC Contract

Update: LoA to Nippon Koei was issued on 14.11.2019 and contract was signed…

21 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Demolition Begins on Jayadeva Flyover for Bangalore Metro’s Line-3/4

Workers today began demolition of Bangalore’s Jayadeva Hospital Flyover…

20 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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Robbins TBMs Commissioned for Mumbai Metro towards Hutatma Chowk

L&T-STEC JV today commissioned TBM Surya-1, a Robbins Crossover XRE tunnel…

20 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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GMRC Invites Bids for Ahmedabad Metro’s Phase 2 Construction

Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) this past week kick-started the tendering…

20 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 58.7 km
• Delhi: 24 December 2002 – 353.3 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 75.2 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 68.5 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 – 8.7 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

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