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5 Bidders for 2nd Zoji La Tunnel’s DPR Consultant Contract

June 23, 2023 Update: Tender has been cancelled May 3, 2023 Original Post: 5…

03 May 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 7 Comments
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Simplex Launches Bangalore Metro Reach 3C’s Final Segment

Simplex Infrastructure on Sunday night launched their final precast segment…

02 May 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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DRA, Tata & RVNL Win Chennai Metro’s 29 Underground Stations Work

June 15, 2023 Update: CMRL has awarded contracts and issued LOAs for all 5 packages….

01 May 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 24 Comments
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Bangalore Metro’s TBM Rudra Records Breakthrough at Lakkasandra

Tunnel Boring Machine S-1259 operated by Afcons Infrastructure on Friday evening…

29 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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Afcons Bids for Bihar Museum – Patna Museum Tunnel Project

Afcons Infrastructure today emerged as the only bidder for a 1.5 km pedestrian…

28 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Patna Metro, Tunnels ⋅ 18 Comments
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13 Bidders for Chennai Port – Maduravoyal Expressway Project

13 civil engineering firms have submitted a total of 24 bids to construct 19.88…

27 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 4 Comments
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L&T Launches Chennai Metro Adyar River Bridge’s 1st Pier Cap

Larsen & Toubro on Saturday evening erected their first 9.5m wide pier cap…

26 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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L&T & MEIL Win Thane – Borivali Tunnel Project’s Work in Mumbai

May 12, 2023 Update: MEIL has been declared as the preferred bidder for both…

25 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 21 Comments
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Afcons – SAM JV’s Agra Metro TBM Yamuna Records 1st Breakthrough

Afcons Infrastructure – SAM India Consortium this morning celebrated the first…

25 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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NCC Awarded Mumbai Metro Line-2B’s Contract for Pending Work

April 25, 2023 Update: Per the comment section, it appears the contract was…

24 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 19 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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