Afcons Awarded Mumbai Metro Line-5’s Thane – Bhiwandi Section

This news is dated, but just putting this out here for the record 🙂 On January…

28 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Nagpur Metro’s Aqua Line-2 to Open on Jan 28

An 11 km stretch of Nagpur Metro’s 19.4 km Line-2 (Aqua Line) will…

27 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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NCC Launches 1st Set of U-Girders for Mumbai Metro Line-2B

This Saturday morning, workers from NCC with assistance from Amrik Singh &…

27 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Reliance – Astaldi JV Launches 1st U-Girder for Mumbai Metro Line-4

In the early morning hours of January 22, workers from Reliance Infrastructure…

24 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Afcons Begins Casting U-Girders for Kanpur Metro Line-1

On Sunday afternoon, Afcons Infrastructure began casting 27m long U-girders…

22 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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L&T Awarded Final Track Order for Mumbai Metro Line-3

In a January 15 filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange, Larsen & Toubro announced…

21 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Nippon Koei-Aarvee-Balaji JV Awarded Chennai Metro PH2 GC Contract

Update: LoA to Nippon Koei was issued on 14.11.2019 and contract was signed…

21 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Demolition Begins on Jayadeva Flyover for Bangalore Metro’s Line-3/4

Workers today began demolition of Bangalore’s Jayadeva Hospital Flyover…

20 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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Robbins TBMs Commissioned for Mumbai Metro towards Hutatma Chowk

L&T-STEC JV today commissioned TBM Surya-1, a Robbins Crossover XRE tunnel boring machine (TBM), from the Churchgate Station towards Hutatma Chowk…

20 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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GMRC Invites Bids for Ahmedabad Metro’s Phase 2 Construction

Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) this past week kick-started the tendering process for the Rs. 5384.17 cr Phase 2 project of Ahmedabad Metro…

20 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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J Kumar Launches 2 x 51m Steel Girders for Mumbai Metro Line-2

In a midnight operation on January 14, workers from J Kumar Infraprojects erected two steel girders over a drain in Borivali West for building Mumbai Metro’s…

20 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Afcons Infra Casts 1st Pier for Kanpur Metro’s Line-1

In the first week of January, workers from Afcons Infrastructure completed casting the first pier for the 8.728 km elevated ‘Priority Corridor’ section of…

19 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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Terratec Completes Factory Testing 3rd & Final TBM for Pune Metro

Tunnel boring machine (TBM) manufacturer Terratec on January 11 completed factory acceptance tests (FAT) for the third and final new TBM at their Guangzhou…

18 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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DMRC & MMRDA Inspect Mumbai Metro Line-2/7’s BEML Rolling Stock

On Friday, officials from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) inspected the manufacturing…

18 Jan 2020 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 2 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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