Vensa Infra Wins Hisar Airport’s New Terminal Contract in Haryana

Vensa Infrastructure on Tuesday was declared as the lowest bidder for the civil…

18 Apr 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Airports ⋅ 3 Comments
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5 Bidders for Parandur Airport Metro Line’s DPR Consultant Contract

Five consulting firms on Tuesday submitted bids to prepare a Detailed Project…

17 Apr 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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MGCPL Launches Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train’s 1st OWG Bridge for Package P1C

M G Contractors Pvt. Ltd. (MGCPL) last week completed launching their first…

15 Apr 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 3 Comments
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Afcons’ Agra Metro TBM S115 Records Breakthrough at RBS College Station

Afcons Infrastructure – Sam India Consortium last night celebrated tunnel…

14 Apr 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Rahee Awarded Mumbai Metro Line-9’s Track Work Contract CA-167

Back in March, Rahee Infratech was awarded a Rs. 77.85 crore (exclusive GST)…

12 Apr 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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DBL Launches Indore Metro Package IN-02A’s Final Segment

Dilip Buildcon Ltd. (DBL) on Wednesday launched their final of 1871 precast…

11 Apr 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Indore Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Dilip Buildcon Wins Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor’s C5 Contract

Dilip Buildcon (DBL) on Monday was declared as the lowest bidder to construct…

09 Apr 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor ⋅ 2 Comments
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Texmaco Begins Delhi Metro Magenta Line’s Track Work for Phase 4 Extension

Texmaco Rail & Engineering this Tuesday officially began track laying activities…

06 Apr 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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JKIL – MEPL’s Terratec TBM S116 Passes Factory Tests for Mumbai’s Sewage Project

Terratec has completed factory acceptance tests (FAT) in Guangzhou, China on S116 – a brand new tunnel boring machine to be deployed by J Kumar Infraprojects…

03 Apr 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 1 Comment
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KPIL – Gulermak Begins Work on Kanpur Metro Line 2’s Underground Section

Kalpataru Projects International Ltd. (KPIL) – Gulermak JV on Monday officially launched construction work on underground Package KNPCC-11 of Kanpur…

02 Apr 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Pune Metro Line-3 Double Decker Viaduct’s 1st Segment Launched

Workers from Pune IT City Metro Rail Ltd. this week began launching 8.5m wide segments for 23.3 km Pune Metro Line-3 project’s 1.6 km double-decker…

31 Mar 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Kanpur Metro’s TBM Azad Records Breakthrough at Nayaganj Station

It’s been a week of breakthroughs! After TBM Narmada in Surat, TBM Azad deployed by Afcons – Sam India Consortium today recorded its first…

28 Mar 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Surat Metro’s TBM Narmada Records Breakthrough at Central Warehouse Station

Gulermak – Sam India Builtwell JV on Tuesday celebrated tunnel boring machine (TBM) S78’s breakthrough at Central Warehouse Station of Surat Metro Phase…

27 Mar 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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URC Begins Chennai Metro Line-3 UG-03’s Work at Thousand Lights

Starting with the Thousand Lights Crossover, URC Construction on Sunday officially started construction work on Chennai Metro Line-3’s Package UG-03…

26 Mar 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 58.68 km
• Delhi: 24 December 2002 – 351.2 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 72.2 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 46.5 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 – 58.66 km
• Nagpur: 8 March 2019 – 38.2 km
• Kanpur – 29 December 2021 – 8.7 km
• Pune: 6 March 2022 – 29.7 km
• Navi Mumbai: 17 November 2023 – 11.1 km
• Agra: March 6 2024 – 5.2 km

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