KA Govt Approves Preparation of DPR for Bangalore Metro’s Phase 3

While presenting Karnataka’s 2018-19 budget yesterday, the state’s…

17 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 59 Comments
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MahaMetro Invites Bids for Pune Metro’s TBM Shafts & Swargate Stn

So back on January 10, the Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation kick-started the…

17 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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J Kumar Launches 1st Platform Pier Cap for Mumbai Metro’s Line-2

On the night of January 19, workers from the J Kumar Infraprojects – CRTG…

15 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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ITD Begins Launching Segments for Bangalore Metro’s Whitefield Extn

On February 1, a crew from ITD Cementation India launched their first precast…

15 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 16 Comments
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LMRC Invites Bids for Kanpur Metro Line-1’s 1st Stretch

On February 6, the Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation initiated the bidding process…

15 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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TBM S71 Completes Factory Tests for Ahmedabad Metro’s Line-1

On January 19, Terratec completed factory acceptance tests (FAT) for a refurbished…

15 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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BMRCL Receives 1st 3-Coach Intermediate Unit for 6-Coach Conversion

The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. today received the first set of 3…

14 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 13 Comments
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L&T Completes Building Hyderabad Metro’s Lakdi-ka-Pul ROB

On the night of  February 10, workers from Larsen & Toubro (L&T) launched…

13 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Hyderabad Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Mock-up BEML Coach Arrives for Kolkata Metro’s Line-2

On the morning of January 5, Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation received a mock-up (prototype) coach from BEML at their maintenance depot in Salt Lake. This…

13 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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BMRCL Signs MoU with Intel to Fund Bangalore Metro’s ORR Line

The February 2018 newsletter of the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. indicates that the BMRCL signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Intel…

13 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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Siemens Awarded Ahmedabad Metro PH1’s Electrification Contract

On January 9, Siemens AG announced that it has won a 76 million Euro (Rs. 600.54 cr) contract to supply, install and commission electrification equipment…

13 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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TBM S52 & S53 Commissioned for Lucknow Metro towards Hussainganj

After completing tunneling works between Sachivalaya and Hussainganj in November and December 2017, the Tata Projects – Gülermak JV on January 15…

13 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Lucknow Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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Signalling Tests Completed on Western Half of Delhi Metro’s Pink Line

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) yesterday announced that its engineers along with Bombardier Transporation’s engineers have completed testing…

13 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 21 Comments
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Tata & Reliance Lowest Bidders for Mumbai Metro’s Line-4

Update 2 – MMRDA awarded 5 contracts to both consortia on March 3, 2018. Update 1 – Bid results for Package CA-12 have now been added at the…

13 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 28 Comments
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 73.1 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 – 79.5 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
• Bhopal: December 21, 2025 – 6.2 km

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