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…

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…

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…

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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Delhi – Varanasi HSR’s Alignment Design & Survey Contracts Awarded

National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd. (NHSRCL) in August-end awarded the first few pre-construction alignment design, survey and data collection contracts…

03 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 18 Comments
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Sree Giri Wins Kochi Metro Phase 1B’s Proof Consultancy Bid

Back in mid-August, Sree Giri emerged as the lowest bidder to provide Proof Consultancy services to Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL) for the 2.95 km Kochi…

03 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kochi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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ITD Cem Begins Work on Bangalore Metro’s Underground Stations

Workers from ITD Cementation India Ltd. this week began guide-wall construction work for Bangalore Metro’s underground Venkateshpura and Tannery…

02 Sep 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 10 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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