Delhi Metro Phase 4’s 1st Alstom RS17 Train Rolls Out in Sri City

Yesterday it was Chennai Metro’s turn, and today it is Delhi Metro’s!…

23 Sep 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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L&T & Siemens Bid for Nagpur Metro Phase 2’s Telecom Contract TL-01

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Technology Services Ltd. and Siemens Ltd. have…

22 Sep 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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Chennai Metro Phase 2’s 1st Alstom Train Rolls Out in Sri City

Alstom Transport today rolled out their first of 36 train-sets for Chennai Metro’s…

22 Sep 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Ashoka Bids for Bankot Creek Bridge’s Contract in Maharashtra

Ashoka Buildcon Ltd. on Friday emerged as the only firm to bid for the civil…

21 Sep 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bridges ⋅ 11 Comments
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L&T’s Chennai Metro TBM Kaveri Records Breakthrough at Adyar Junction

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Thursday celebrated tunnel boring machine S-1327A’s…

20 Sep 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Bangalore Metro Phase 3’s Geotechnical Work Begins on Magadi Road

SECON Pvt. Ltd. has officially started geotechnical soil investigation work…

19 Sep 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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BEML Wins Chennai Metro’s 210 Coach Rolling Stock Contract ARE02A

BEML Ltd. today was declared as the lowest bidder to supply 210 coaches for…

18 Sep 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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Delhi Metro: Afcons Records Double TBM Breakthrough at Pulbangash

Afcons Infrastructure today celebrated a double breakthrough at Pulbangash Station…

18 Sep 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Ceigall Wins Ayodhya Bypass’ Construction Contracts in UP

Ceigall India Ltd (CIL) was today declared as the lowest bidder for the construction of 67.57 km Ayodhya Bypass project in Uttar Pradesh on Hybrid Annuity…

17 Sep 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 3 Comments
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Ahmedabad Metro’s Phase 2 to Gandhinagar Inaugurated

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated a 20.8 km section of the 28.25 km Ahmedabad Metro Phase 2 project from an event…

16 Sep 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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8 Bidders for Kharagpur – Moregram Economic Corridor’s Packages 4 & 5

8 civil construction firms have submitted 16 bids to construct packages 4 & 5 of the 230.9 km Kharagpur – Moregram Economic Corridor (NH-116A),…

15 Sep 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 4 Comments
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URC Casts Indore Metro IN-03’s Final Foundation on Super Corridor

URC Construction on a subcontract from Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. (RVNL) this week finished casting all 377 pier foundations for 33.53 km Indore Metro Phase…

14 Sep 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Indore Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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Agra Metro AGCC-05’s First U-Girder Cast by Ceigall

Ceigall India and its subcontractor Dixcon Infra this Tuesday began casting 28m long U-girders for the viaduct of Package AGCC-05 on 14.25 km Agra Metro Line-1 connecting…

14 Sep 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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17 Firms Qualify for Ayodhya Bypass’ Two Construction Contracts

Seventeen civil engineering firms have qualified for the construction work of 67.57 km long Ayodhya Bypass project on Hybrid Annuity Mode (HAM) after National…

13 Sep 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 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 – 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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