APCO Wins Bangalore – Chennai Expressway’s PH2 Package 2

September 15, 2021 Update: APCO Infratech has received NHAI’s LOA. March…

15 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 6 Comments
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STRABAG Wins Delhi – Meerut RRTS’ TVS & ECS Package 23

The winner for another RRTS systems package is now known. STRABAG International…

13 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 5 Comments
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SECON Begins Mumbai – Nagpur High Speed Rail’s LiDAR Survey

SECON – Helica JV on Friday started light detection and ranging (LiDAR)…

13 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 15 Comments
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Afcons’ TBM S-1264 Starts Tunneling for Bangalore Metro at RMS

Engineers from Afcons Infrastructure today commissioned tunnel boring machine…

12 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 14 Comments
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SYSTRA Wins Bangalore Metro Phase 2’s UTO Consultancy

A consortium of SYSTRA – SYSTRA MVA Consulting (India) Pvt. Ltd. has been…

12 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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Mumbai Metro Line-4A’s 1st U Girder Launched by J Kumar

In the early morning hours of Thursday, J Kumar Infraprojects launched the first…

12 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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27 Bidders for Delhi Dehradun Expressway Phase 2’s Packages 2 & 3

April 2 Update: NHAI has cancelled the bidding process without offering a reason…

12 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 6 Comments
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Sadbhav Begins Surat Metro’s Test Piling Work

Engineers from Sadbhav Engineering Ltd. – SP Singla Constructions Pvt. Ltd….

12 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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Bids Invited for Indore Metro’s Super Corridor Route

Madhya Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (MPMRC) on Wednesday invited tenders (bids) for the construction of Indore Metro’s 10.927 km MR10 Road…

11 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Indore Metro ⋅ 21 Comments
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18 Bidders for Delhi – Amritsar Expressway’s 4 Packages in Punjab

Eighteen firms have submitted a total of 47 bids to construct 4 civil packages of the roughly 650 km Delhi – Amritsar – Katra (DAK) Expressway‘s…

10 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 20 Comments
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MMRDA Invites Bids for Mumbai Metro Line-4’s Telecom Contract

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) today invited bids for the telecommunications contract for Mumbai Metro’s 32.32 km Line-4 and…

09 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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HFCL Wins Kanpur & Agra Metros’ Telecom Contract

Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC) on Monday awarded HFCL Ltd. with the telecommunications contract for the 32.385 km Kanpur Metro and…

09 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro, Kanpur Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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6 Bidders for Varanasi – Howrah HSR’s LiDAR & Alignment Design

Six design and engineering firms have submitted bids to prepare the final alignment design including an aerial LiDAR survey for the Detailed Project Report…

09 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 11 Comments
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L&T Launches Delhi Meerut RRTS Package 3’s 1st Segment

On this past Saturday and Monday evenings, Larsen & Toubro started launching 10.5 m wide precast segments at two different locations for constructing…

09 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 4 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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