GMRC Invites Bids for Surat Metro’s Dream City Depot & Metro Bhavan

Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) today invited bids from construction firms…

04 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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ITD Relaunches Kolkata Metro’s TBM Urvi towards Bowbazar Shaft

Workers from ITD-ITD Cementation India Ltd JV today relaunched tunnel boring…

04 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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L&T Begins Soil Testing for Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train

Right before the year ended, Larsen & Toubro and its geotechnical investigation…

04 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 15 Comments
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MahaMetro Extends Pune Metro’s Trial Runs to Phugewadi

Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (Maha Metro) on Sunday extended Pune…

04 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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Finishing Works Underway at Pune Metro’s Sant Tukaram Station

With civil construction works on Pune Metro’s Sant Tukaram Station long…

03 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 14 Comments
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L&T-STEC Restarts Mumbai Metro’s TBM Surya-2 towards CSMT

After recommissioning Surya-1 on New Year’s Eve, workers from Larsen &…

03 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Sam India Begins Kanpur Metro’s Station Roof Work

Towards the end of December, workers from Sam (India) Builtwell Pvt. Ltd. started…

02 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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DMRC Invites Bids for Delhi Metro’s Packages DC-10B-R & DC-11

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Thursday invited bids for two significant…

02 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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L&T Wins Rishikesh-Karnaprayag Rail Line’s Package 4

Larsen & Toubro today emerged as the lowest bidder for major tunneling work on the under construction 125 km Rishikesh-Karnaprayag railway line which…

01 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Other ⋅ 31 Comments
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L&T Begins Work on Delhi-Meerut RRTS’ Package 7 and 17

2020 had another major update in store! Larsen & Toubro on Wednesday performed a bhoomi puja and ground breaking ceremony in Meerut for two key packages…

01 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 8 Comments
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Meinhardt Wins Kolkata Metro Line-6’s PMC Contract

Back in early-December, Meinhardt India Pvt. Ltd. emerged as the lowest bidder for the Project Management Consultant (PMC) contract of two sections of…

01 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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L&T-STEC Restarts Mumbai Metro’s TBM Surya-1 towards CSMT

2020 had one last surprise in store! Workers from Larsen & Toubro – Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Company (L&T – STEC) JV on Thursday recommissioned…

01 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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2020 Recap: Progress of India’s Metro & High-Speed Rail Systems

Hot damn, what a crazy year right? COVID-19 obviously changed how we do a lot of things in 2020. This includes travel. Air and rail-based travel was non-existent…

31 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail, Other ⋅ 22 Comments
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J Kumar Launches Mumbai Metro Line-9’s 1st Pier Cap

A few hours ago, workers from J Kumar Infraprojects erected the first 9.5m wide pier cap for Mumbai Metro’s 11.38 km Line-9 (northern…

31 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 6 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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