DMRC Invites Bids for Patna Metro Line-1’s Construction

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) today invited bids for the construction…

18 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Patna Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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Silver Colour Assigned for Delhi Metro’s Aerocity – Tughlakabad Line

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) today announced it has officially assigned…

16 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 16 Comments
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4 Bidders for Navi Mumbai Metro Line 2 & 3’s DDC Contract

December 24 Update: This tender has been canceled. Sept 16 Original Post: Delhi…

16 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Navi Mumbai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Central Govt. Approves 121 km Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor

The Central Government’s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)…

15 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor ⋅ 5 Comments
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BMRCL Invites PMC Bids for Bangalore Metro’s ORR – Airport Line

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) on Monday invited tenders (bids)…

15 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 23 Comments
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Mumbai Metro’s Line-5 to be Extended to Ulhasnagar

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Monday invited bids for topographical…

15 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 15 Comments
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L&T’s TBM Avni Starts Tunneling from Bangalore Metro’s Shivajinagar

Engineers from Larsen & Toubro on this past Monday quietly commissioned…

10 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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NHSRCL Invites Survey Bids for Mumbai – Nagpur High Speed Rail

National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) today invited bids for…

08 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 13 Comments
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BMRCL – BIAL – Embassy Sign MoU for Bangalore Metro’s Airport Line

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. today signed two signficant Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreements to develop Bangalore Metro’s 37 km Airport…

08 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Kochi Metro Phase 1’s Final Section to Petta Inaugurated

This afternoon, Kochi Metro Phase 1 project’s final 1.12 km section, connecting Thaikoodam to Petta in the south-eastern part of the city, was inaugurated…

07 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kochi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Sam India Wins Delhi – Meerut RRTS Stations’ Roof Work Contract

Last week, Sam India Builtwell Pvt. Ltd. emerged as the only technically qualified bidder and automatically the winner for the 82.15 km Delhi – Meerut…

05 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 1 Comment
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Jakson & Blue Star Awarded Kolkata & Mumbai Metro’s E&M Contracts

Last week, Jakson Group and Blue Star Limited were awarded two separate contracts for Electrical & Mechanical works at 7 elevated stations of Kolkata…

04 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro, Mumbai Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Godrej Awarded Mumbai Metro Line-2’s Station Facade Contracts

Last week, Godrej and Boyce Manufacturing Company Ltd. was awarded two contracts for external facade works at 9 stations on the 18.6 km Mumbai Metro…

04 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Dogus-Soma Restarts Mumbai Metro’s TBM 1238 towards Mahalaxmi

Workers from Doğuş-Soma JV on Tuesday recommissioned tunnel boring machine (TBM) 1238 from Science Museum Station’s southern-end towards Mahalaxmi…

03 Sep 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 – 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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