Mumbai Metro’s Sahar Station Built with Water Pipes Running Across

There’s something unique about each one of Mumbai Metro Line-3’s…

25 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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Waterproofing Works Begin at Pune Metro’s Swargate Station

Waterproofing work commenced this week at the lowest level of Pune Metro’s…

25 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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AECOM Wins Mumbai Metro Line-10 & Line-12’s GC Contract

AECOM India today won the General Consultant (GC) service contract for civil…

24 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 21 Comments
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U-Girder Launching Begins for Delhi Metro Pink Line’s Extension

This news totally escaped my radar! Towards the end of November, workers from…

24 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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Delhi – Panipat RRTS Approved by Haryana Government’s Cabinet

Haryana state government’s cabinet on Wednesday approved the detailed…

24 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 15 Comments
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Thane Metrolite Approved by Thane Municipal Corporation

Per the Mid Day, the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for Thane’s 29 km Metrolite…

24 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Thane Metrolite ⋅ 8 Comments
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Phooltas Wins Kanpur & Agra Metros’ R&R Rescue Vehicle Contract

Phooltas Transrail Ltd. on Tuesday emerged as the only technically qualified…

24 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro, Kanpur Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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Afcons Begins Casting U-Girders for Mumbai Metro’s Line-5

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

23 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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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 works for Mumbai Metro Line-3‘s Sahar “Scissor” Crossover Cavern…

23 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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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 lowest bidders for 2 packages to help prepare the Detailed Project Report…

23 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 7 Comments
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Trial Runs Begin on Kolkata Metro’s Dakshineswar Extension

Earlier today ‘Metro Railway, Kolkata’ – the operator of Kolkata Metro’s 28.14 km Line-1 began trial runs (train testing)…

23 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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NCC Begins Piling for Patna Metro’s Construction

Workers from NCC Ltd. and IB Infrastructure on Tuesday quietly started piling work – the first step of construction – for Patna Metro’s…

23 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Patna Metro ⋅ 67 Comments
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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 Post: Jindal Steel and Power Ltd. (JSPL) today emerged as the lowest bidder…

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 tenders (bids) for the first dedicated preparatory survey work to develop…

22 Dec 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 9 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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