IRCON Wins Delhi – Meerut RRTS’ Electrification Package 19

November 24 Update: IRCON has been awarded the line’s electrification…

24 Oct 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 2 Comments
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4 Bidders for Delhi – Meerut RRTS’ TVS & ECS Package 23

Four firms have submitted bids for commissioning the tunnel ventilation system…

23 Oct 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 6 Comments
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NHSRCL Invites Bids for Mumbai – Ahmedabad HSR’s Package C8

India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd. (NHSRCL) on Thursday invited…

23 Oct 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 15 Comments
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5 Bidders for Mumbai Metro Line 10 & 12’s General Consultancy

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) today opened technical…

22 Oct 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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Ranjit Buildcon Wins Ahmedabad Metro Phase 2’s Package C2

Ranjit Buildcon today emerged as the lowest bidder for constructing the 6.478…

21 Oct 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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4 Bidders for Mumbai Metro Line-2B’s Balance Civil Work

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) today opened technical…

20 Oct 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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25 Bidders for Mumbai – Nagpur HSR’s Alignment, GADs & Survey

India’s National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) has received…

20 Oct 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 3 Comments
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3 Bidders for Chennai Metro Line 4 & 5’s Construction

Three construction firms / consortia today submitted tenders (bids) to construct…

20 Oct 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 14 Comments
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NHSRCL Invites Survey Bids for Delhi – Amritsar High Speed Rail

India’s National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) on Monday invited tenders (bids) for the first ever preparatory survey work to develop…

20 Oct 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 19 Comments
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Sam India Wins Agra Metro Line-1’s Construction Work

October 23 Update: Sam India has been awarded AGCC-01’s Rs 272.95 crore contract. October 19 Original Post: Sam India Builtwell Pvt. Ltd. today emerged…

19 Oct 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 101 Comments
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L&T Wins Mumbai – Ahmedabad HSR’s Package C4

That was quick! Larsen & Toubro today emerged as the lowest bidder for constructing the 237.1 km Package C4 of the 508.17 km Mumbai – Ahmedabad…

19 Oct 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 48 Comments
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BMRCL Invites Bids for Bangalore Metro’s Anjanapura Depot

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) today invited bids from construction firms for building the Green Line’s new Anjanapura Depot as part…

17 Oct 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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L&T Begins Assembling India’s Largest TBM for Mumbai’s Coastal Road

Towards the end of September, workers from Larsen & Toubro began assembly work on the largest tunnel boring machine (TBM), with a diameter of 12.19m,…

17 Oct 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Other ⋅ 13 Comments
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Mumbai Metro’s TBM Surya-2 Records Breakthrough at Hutatma Chowk

On Friday, Tunnel Boring Machine Surya-2 operated by the Larsen & Toubro – Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Company (L&T – STEC) JV made a…

17 Oct 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 5 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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