4 Qualify for Mumbai – Ahmedabad HSR’s Package C8

Four bidders today qualified through the technical bid evaluation round for…

27 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 6 Comments
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Pune Metro’s Tunnels Completed Under Mutha River

Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation (Maha Metro) on Monday announced completion…

27 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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7 Bidders for Kolkata Metro Line-6’s Track Contract

Seven rail firms have submitted bids to supply and install ballastless tracks…

26 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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Mumbai Metro Records NATM Breakthrough at Shitladevi Station

Workers from Continental Engineering Corp – ITD Cementation – Tata Projects…

26 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Afcons Launches 2 x 45m Steel Girders for Kanpur Metro

Afcons Infrastructure on Friday night erected their second 45 meter steel box…

24 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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TBM S-1259 Starts Tunneling for Bangalore Metro’s Pink Line

Afcons Infrastructure on Friday commissioned their second tunnel boring machine,…

24 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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Bids Reinvited for Mumbai Metro Line-2B’s MTNL-Chembur Section

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) this evening invited…

22 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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Mumbai Metro’s TBM Surya-2 Records Breakthrough at CSMT

Moments ago, Tunnel Boring Machine Surya-2 operated by Larsen & Toubro –…

22 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 13 Comments
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Bids Invited for Nepal Border – Haldia Port Expressway’s DPR

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) this week invited tenders to prepare a Detailed Project Report for an expressway linking Raxual in Bihar, on…

22 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 7 Comments
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Bids Invited for Hyderabad Regional Ring Road’s DPR Work

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) earlier this month invited tenders for consultancy services to prepare a Detailed Project Report of the northern…

21 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 7 Comments
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Afcons Launches Kanpur Metro’s 400th U-Girder

Afcons Infrastructure on Saturday night celebrated the launch of their 400th U-girder for constructing the 8.728 km priority corridor of Kanpur Metro’s 23.785…

21 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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Delhi Metro’s Trilokpuri Section Nears Completion

Delhi Metro Pink Line’s long pending 288.38m missing viaduct in Trilokpuri Block-15 has swiftly taken shape over the past two months following the…

21 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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Evrascon & Ceigall Win Delhi-Amritsar Expressway’s Work

Evrascon-MKCIL and Ceigall India have emerged as the lowest bidders for constructing packages 11 and Spur II of the roughly 650 km Delhi – Amritsar…

20 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 39 Comments
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Central Govt. Approves Bangalore Metro’s Phase 2A & 2B

The Union Government’s cabinet today approved construction of Bangalore Metro’s 57 km Blue Line (Phase 2A and Phase 2B) linking Central Silk…

20 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 30 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 – 351.2 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 75.2 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 59.2 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 – 58.7 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

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