Author Archive for: TMRG

CMRS Approves Bangalore Metro’s Whitefield Line with 58 Conditions

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) last week received the final statutory…

06 Mar 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 14 Comments
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5 Bidders for Mumbai Metro Line-4’s Track Work Contract CA-161

5 firms have submitted bids to supply and install ballastless tracks for Mumbai…

05 Mar 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Afcons’ Delhi-Meerut RRTS TBM S89 Lowered for Final Drive

Afcons Infrastructure this week started lowering parts of tunnel boring machine…

05 Mar 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 1 Comment
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Delhi Metro Silver Line’s 1st Tunnel Boring Machine Starts Tunneling

Larsen & Toubro on Friday commissioned TBM DZ1122 – the first tunnel boring…

04 Mar 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Bids Invited for Mumbai Metro Line-12 Kalyan – Taloja’s Civil Work

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Friday invited tenders…

04 Mar 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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Alstom Begins Production of Pune Metro Line-3’s 1st Train

Alstom Transport India on Friday formally started manufacturing 22 Metropolis…

04 Mar 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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8 Bidders for Chennai Metro Line-3’s UG-01, UG-03 & UG-05 Stations

After opening bids for UG-02 & UG-04 yesterday, Chennai Metro Rail Ltd….

03 Mar 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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15 Bidders for Varanasi – Kolkata Expressway’s Construction Work

15 firms have submitted bids for the civil construction work of 610.417 km Varanasi…

03 Mar 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 8 Comments
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J Kumar Lowers Surat Metro UG-2’s 1st Tunnel Boring Machine S28B

J Kumar Infraprojects this week started lowering parts of tunnel boring machine…

03 Mar 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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11 Bidders for Kanpur Ring Road Package 1’s Contract

11 firms have submitted bids for the civil construction contract of 93.2 km Kanpur…

03 Mar 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 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 – 94.3 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 – 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

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