ITD’s 1st Bangalore Metro Pink Line TBM Named Tunga

ITD Cementation India has named their first tunnel boring machine for Bangalore…

12 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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L&T’s TBM Mavala Begins Tunneling for Mumbai’s Coastal Road

Maharashtra’s Chief Minister today formally inaugurated tunneling work…

11 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways, Tunnels ⋅ 2 Comments
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Pune Metro’s 1st Titagarh Train Gets Ready for Mid-2021 Rollout

Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA),…

11 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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Afcons Begins Work on Delhi-Meerut RRTS’ Package 6

Afcons Infrastructure last Thursday performed a bhoomi puja and ground…

11 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 24 Comments
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ITD Casts Mumbai Metro Line-7’s Second Crossover

ITD Cementation India Ltd. this weekend completed casting a second track crossover…

10 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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Salasar Subcontracted Bangalore Metro Phase 2’s Track-Work

Salasar Adorus Infra, a subsidiary of Salasar Techno Engineering, has been subcontracted…

09 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Bids Invited for Chennai Metro Line-5’s Underground Work

Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) on Thursday invited tenders (bids) for the…

08 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 15 Comments
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6 Firms Shortlisted for Kanpur Metro’s Underground Work

Barring Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co. Ltd. (STEC), all other construction…

08 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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Piling Underway for Kolkata Metro’s Bowbazar Shaft

Workers from ITD-ITD Cementation India Ltd JV have over the past quarter been performing piling work deep inside Kolkata’s infamous Bowbazar…

08 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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Bangalore Metro’s Anjanapura Extn to be Inaugurated on Jan 14

Bangalore Metro’s 5.799 km Yelachenahalli – Silk Institute (Anjanapura) section will be inaugurated on January 14 with commercial operations starting…

07 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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MahaMetro to Manage Navi Mumbai Metro’s Pending Work

Navi Mumbai’s City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) on Tuesday announced its decision to appoint Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation…

06 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Navi Mumbai Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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Ahmedabad Metro’s Sabarmati Bridge Starts Taking Shape

In central Ahmedabad, a new 298.20 meter long bridge is slowly taking shape over the Sabarmati River for Ahmedabad Metro’s 20.737 km Line-1. This…

05 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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GMRC Invites Bids for Surat Metro’s Dream City Depot & Metro Bhavan

Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) today invited bids from construction firms for building Surat Metro Line-1’s train depot, operations control…

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 machine (TBM) S-616 at Sealdah Station towards Bowbazar Shaft to complete…

04 Jan 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 7 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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