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Tata’s Chennai Metro Phase 2 TBM S96 Records Breakthrough

Tata Projects Ltd. (TPL) on Monday celebrated tunnel boring machine S96’s…

08 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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BEML Awarded Bangalore Metro’s 318 Coach Rolling Stock Contract 5RS-DM

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) on Monday awarded BEML with…

08 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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ITD Lowers Chennai Metro Line-4’s 1st Tunnel Boring Machine

ITD Cementation on Tuesday started lowering and assembling their first tunnel…

05 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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ITD’s Chennai Metro TBM S1075B Passes Factory Tests

Tunnel boring machine manufacturer Herrenknecht on Tuesday completed factory…

03 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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NCC – JKIL JV Wins Mumbai’s GMLR Tunnel Contract

September 22, 2023 Update: BMC has issued LOA contract to NCC – J Kumar…

29 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 1 Comment
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4 Bidders for Mumbai Pune Expressway – Trans Harbor Elevated Highway’s Work

4 civil engineering firms have submitted bids to connect the operational Mumbai…

28 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 2 Comments
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Afcons Records Delhi-Meerut RAPIDX Package 8’s Final Tunnel Breakthrough

Afcons Infrastructure on Tuesday celebrated tunnel boring machine S89’s second…

26 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 2 Comments
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Tata Wins Chennai Metro Line-5’s UG06 Tunneling Contract

Tata Projects Ltd. (TPL) was today declared as the lowest bidder for the civil…

25 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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Afcons-SAM’s Agra Metro TBM Shivaji Lowered at Taj Mahal Station

Afcons Infrastructure – SAM India JV last week started lowering and assembling…

24 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Afcons-SAM’s Agra Metro TBM Yamuna Records Breakthrough at Midshaft

Afcons Infrastructure – SAM India Consortium this past weekend quitely celebrated…

21 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 0 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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