8 Bidders for Mumbai Metro Line-2B’s Balance Civil Work

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

06 Jul 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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MMRDA Invites GC Bids for Mumbai Metro’s Line-10 & Line-12

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) today invited bids from…

06 Jul 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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UPMRC Invites Bids for Kanpur Metro’s 1st Underground Section

Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC) today invited bids from construction…

06 Jul 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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Aarvee Wins Kochi Metro Phase 1B’s Project Mgmt Consultant Contract

Aarvee Associates Architects Engineers & Consultants in late-June won the…

06 Jul 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kochi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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CMRL Invites Bids for Chennai Metro’s Line-4 & 5’s 1st Section

Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) today initiated the bidding process for its…

05 Jul 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 15 Comments
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3 Bidders for Mumbai Metro Line-4 & 4A’s 234 Coach Rolling Stock

BEML, Bombardier and CRRC are the three train manufacturing firms that have…

04 Jul 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 20 Comments
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CCECC – KEC Begins Casting 1st Pile Cap for Delhi Metro Phase 4

Just over a week after pouring concrete to cast the first U-girder, workers…

03 Jul 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 13 Comments
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L&T Lowers TBM Lavi into Bangalore Metro’s Shivajinagar Station

Back in mid-June, workers from Larsen & Toubro quietly lowered pieces of…

02 Jul 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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ADB Reveals Bangalore Metro Airport Line’s Design Details

The updated website of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) reveals many interesting design and civil construction details on Bangalore Metro’s…

01 Jul 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 21 Comments
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12 Bidders for Ahmedabad Metro Phase 2’s Construction

Earlier today, Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) opened technical bids from construction companies to reveal that twelve firms had submitted 17 tenders…

01 Jul 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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ADB Evaluating $780 mn Loan for Chennai Metro Phase 2 Project

Per the updated website of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the bank on June 19 cleared a project concept to officially begin evaluation on a $780 million…

30 Jun 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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7 Bidders for Delhi – Meerut RRTS Line’s Electrification Contract

7 firms have submitted bids for the overhead electrification contract (Package 19) of the 82.15 km Delhi – Meerut RRTS line project, after…

30 Jun 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 18 Comments
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Som Begins Piling for Delhi Metro’s Punjabi Bagh Interchange

Som Projects Private Limited has started piling work to build an interchange between the Delhi Metro’s Green Line (Line-5) and Pink Line (Line-7) as…

30 Jun 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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MMRDA Invites DDC Bids for 13 Mumbai Metro Interchange Facilities

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Monday invited bids from design engineering firms to appoint a Detailed Design Consultant (DDC)…

30 Jun 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 14 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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