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TBM S78 Achieves 1st Breakthrough for Pune Metro Project

On New Year’s eve, tunnel boring machine (TBM) S78 “Mutha” operated…

03 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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HCC-VCCL Wins Delhi Metro Line-8’s Underground Work at Vikaspuri

Update: HCC-VCCL JV received DMRC’s Letter of Acceptance (LOA) on January…

03 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Update on Me and Site’s Future

Hello again! Let’s cut to the chase – I got burned out. Some of you…

03 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro, Ahmedabad Metro, Bangalore Metro, Bhopal Metro, Chennai Metro, Coimbatore Metro, Delhi Metro, Delhi NCR RRTS, Gurgaon Metro, Guwahati Metro, High Speed Rail, Hyderabad Metro, Indore Metro, Jaipur Metro, Kanpur Metro, Kochi Metro, Kolkata Metro, Kozhikode Metro, Lucknow Metro, Meerut Metro, Mumbai Metro, Nagpur Metro, Navi Mumbai Metro, Noida & Greater Noida Metro, Other, Patna Metro, Pune Metro, Surat Metro, Thiruvananthapuram Metro, Varanasi Metro, Vijayawada Metro, Visakhapatnam Metro ⋅ 48 Comments
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Two Chennai Metro Sections Inaugurated to AG-DMS and Central

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Union Minister of Housing…

26 May 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 17 Comments
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CMRS to Inspect Delhi Metro’s Green Line to Bahadurgarh on May 30

The final round of safety inspections on the new 11.182 km elevated extension…

22 May 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 13 Comments
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Delhi Metro Magenta Line’s Final Stretch to be Inaugurated on May 28

After receiving the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety’s approval last week,…

21 May 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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CMRS Approves Operations on Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation on Tuesday afternoon announced that they’ve…

16 May 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 16 Comments
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CMRS to Inspect Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line between May 8 – 10

The final round of safety inspections on the pending 25.59 km Janakpuri West…

01 May 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 57 Comments
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NCC Launches 1st Segment for Pune Metro’s Line-2

That was awfully quick! On Monday night, NCC Ltd. launched their first precast…

21 Mar 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 14 Comments
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NCC Casts 1st Pier for Pune Metro’s Line-2 at Kothrud

Workers from the NCC Ltd. on March 11 completed casting their first pier for…

16 Mar 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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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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