Afcons Begins Casting U-Girders for Mumbai Metro’s Line-5

Afcons Infrastructure on Tuesday began casting 28 meter long U-girders to build…

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Excavation Completed for Mumbai Metro’s Sahar Crossover Cavern

Endacom’s team on this past Friday celebrated the completion of excavation…

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Mumbai – Hyderabad High Speed Rail’s Design & Survey Bids Opened

Chetak Engineers in early-December and Monarch Surveyors today emerged as the…

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Trial Runs Begin on Kolkata Metro’s Dakshineswar Extension

Earlier today ‘Metro Railway, Kolkata’ – the operator of Kolkata…

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NCC Begins Piling for Patna Metro’s Construction

Workers from NCC Ltd. and IB Infrastructure on Tuesday quietly started piling…

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Jindal Wins Delhi & Mumbai Metro Line-6 Depots’ Track Contract

January 7: JSPL was issued a Letter of Award (LoA) by DMRC December 22 Original…

22 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro, Mumbai Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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NHSRCL Invites Survey Bids for Chennai – Mysuru High Speed Rail

India’s National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) today invited…

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Segment Launching Begins for Pune Metro over Mula-Mutha River

Late last night, workers from J Kumar Infraprojects began launching precast…

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Ardanuy Awarded Surat & Ahmedabad Metro’s DDC Traction Contracts

Ardanuy Ingeniería S.A. on Monday signed two Detailed Design Consultancy (DDC) contracts with Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) for the power supply…

22 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro, Surat Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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DMRC Invites Bids for Patna Metro New ISBT Depot’s 1200 MT Rails

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) today invited tenders (bids) for the supply and commissioning of 1200 MT of regular rails at the New ISBT Depot of Patna…

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STEC Awarded Delhi – Meerut RRTS Package 4’s Contract

Multiple industry sources have confirmed to me that Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co. Ltd. (STEC) was late-last week finally awarded a Rs. 1126.89 crore…

21 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 6 Comments
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Sadbhav – SP Singla Wins Surat Metro Line-1’s Construction

January 11, 2021 Update: Sadbhav Engineering has been issued a LOA by GMRC for Surat Metro Package CS1’s construction. December 21, 2020 Original…

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7 Bidders for 3 High Speed Rail Projects’ EIA Study

7 firms have submitted a total of 16 bids over the past month for carrying out environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies on three of seven new High…

21 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 5 Comments
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Soil Testing Completed for Kanpur Metro’s Rania – Naubasta Section

Techpro Engineers Pvt. Ltd. has wrapped up a 2 month geotechnical soil investigation assignment for Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC) on a roughly…

21 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 16 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 – 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 – 60.7 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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