TBM S52 Lowered into Lucknow Metro’s Bapu Bhawan Shaft

With construction work completed for the 22m deep Bapu Bhawan Shaft adjacent…

05 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Lucknow Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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MMRDA Invites Bids for Mumbai Metro’s Line-2B and Line-4

This is big. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) in…

05 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 18 Comments
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In response to my recent 2016 recap post where I asked for site improvement…

04 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro, Ahmedabad Metro, Bangalore Metro, Chennai Metro, Delhi Metro, Delhi NCR RRTS, Gurgaon Metro, Guwahati Metro, Hyderabad Metro, Jaipur Metro, Kanpur Metro, Kochi Metro, Kolkata Metro, Kozhikode Metro, Lucknow Metro, Meerut Metro, Mumbai Metro, Nagpur Metro, Navi Mumbai Metro, Noida & Greater Noida Metro, Other, Patna Metro, Pune Metro, Thiruvananthapuram Metro, Varanasi Metro, Vijayawada Metro, Visakhapatnam Metro ⋅ 85 Comments
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Simplex Emerges Lowest Bidder for Ahmedabad’s Shreyas-Ranip Stretch

The missing middle piece of Ahmedabad Metro’s 18.522 km north-south line…

02 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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1st CRRC Train Arrives at Navi Mumbai Metro’s Taloja Depot

Update-1: Looking at the comments received in this post below, it appears that…

02 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Navi Mumbai Metro ⋅ 13 Comments
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2016 Recap – Progress of India’s Metro Systems

First off, here’s wishing everyone a Happy New Year! 🙂 As 2016 comes…

31 Dec 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro, Ahmedabad Metro, Bangalore Metro, Chennai Metro, Delhi Metro, Gurgaon Metro, Guwahati Metro, Hyderabad Metro, Jaipur Metro, Kanpur Metro, Kochi Metro, Kolkata Metro, Kozhikode Metro, Lucknow Metro, Meerut Metro, Mumbai Metro, Nagpur Metro, Navi Mumbai Metro, Noida & Greater Noida Metro, Other, Patna Metro, Pune Metro, Thiruvananthapuram Metro, Varanasi Metro, Vijayawada Metro, Visakhapatnam Metro ⋅ 21 Comments
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NCC Casts 1st Pier for CA-03 Section of Mumbai Metro’s Line-7

Engineers & workers from NCC today removed formwork (casting molds) from pier…

30 Dec 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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L&T Emerges as Lowest Bidder for Ahmedabad Metro’s UG Section

Yesterday, Larsen & Toubro emerged as the lowest bidder for both packages…

30 Dec 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 21 Comments
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PMRDA Approves Pune Metro’s Hinjewadi-Shivaji Nagar Line-3

With civic elections coming up in early 2017, small and big-ticket projects in Pune are suddenly getting a much required push these days… Yesterday,…

29 Dec 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 34 Comments
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J Kumar Completes Casting 1st Pier for Mumbai Metro’s Line-7

Yesterday, engineers from J Kumar Infraprojects, who are responsible for constructing package CA-02 from Aarey Station to Magathane Station, completed…

29 Dec 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Geotechnical & Topographic Surveying Begins for Pune Metro

A couple days after the 31.254 km Pune Metro’s foundation stone was unveiled, an unknown contractor appointed by the Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation…

29 Dec 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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MP Govt’s Cabinet Approves DPRs for Bhopal & Indore Metros

The Madhya Pradesh government’s cabinet on December 27 approved the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) for the first phase of both Bhopal and Indore’s…

29 Dec 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bhopal Metro, Indore Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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TBM S781 Lifted Out & S495 Breaks Through at Delhi’s Gurdwara Shaft

Following the completion of excavation work at Delhi Metro’s Gurdwara Emergency Shaft in north Delhi’s Rameshwar Nagar, the CEC-CICI JV earlier…

28 Dec 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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Lucknow’s Bapu Bhawan TBM Shaft Gets Ready for Deploying TBMs

The Tata – Gülermak JV, responsible for constructing Lucknow Metro’s 3.44 km underground section between Charbagh and KD Singh Babu Stadium, has…

28 Dec 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Lucknow Metro ⋅ 6 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 – 351.2 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 – 58.7 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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