SMEC Awarded Consultant Contract for UER-2’s Extension to Delhi – Dehradun Expressway

SMEC (India) – MSV International JV in June was awarded a Rs. 1.97 crore…

17 Jul 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 3 Comments
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RVNL Awarded Delhi Metro Saket – Lajpat Nagar Line’s Contract D2C-02

Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. (RVNL) on Monday was awarded a Rs. 447.42 crore contract…

16 Jul 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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J Kumar’s Mumbai Metro TBM Dhruv Records Final Breakthrough for Line-7A

J Kumar Infraprojects (JKIL) on Monday celebrated tunnel boring machine (TBM)…

15 Jul 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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8 Bidders for Bangalore Metro Phase 2, 2A & 2B’s ISA Contract

Eight firms have submitted bids for the Independent Safety Assessment (ISA)…

13 Jul 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Vadhavan Airport: Grant Thornton – Nippon Koei Awarded Prefeasibility Contract

Grant Thornton – Nippon Koei India JV this Monday was awarded a Rs. 30…

12 Jul 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Airports ⋅ 2 Comments
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L&T’s Kolkata Metro TBM Durga Starts Line-3’s Tunneling Work

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Thursday officially commissioned their first…

11 Jul 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Afcons Records Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train’s 1st NATM Tunnel Breakthrough

Afcons Infrastructure on Wednesday celebrated completing their first NATM tunnel…

11 Jul 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 0 Comments
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6 Bidders for Pune Metro Swargate – Katraj Line’s Underground Contract

Six civil engineering firms (one in a consortium) on Wednesday submitted bids…

10 Jul 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Balaji Awarded Chennai – Tamil Nadu RRTS Project’s Feasibility Contracts

Balaji Railroad Systems (BARSYL) this Thursday was awarded three contracts for preparing detailed feasibility reports (DFRs) of new Regional Rapid Transit…

09 Jul 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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L&T Launches Agra Metro Line-2’s 1st U-Girder at Agra Cantt

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) last Sunday night launched their first set of 2 U-girders for the construction of Agra Metro Phase 1 project’s 15.09…

06 Jul 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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L&T Wins Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train’s T1 Track Contract

September 11, 2025 Update: NHSRCL and L&T today signed contract agreement for Package T-1 totaling 157 km of alignment. July 6, 2025 Original Post:…

06 Jul 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 4 Comments
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Bhopal Metro’s 1st Tunnel Boring Machine 427 Passes Factory Tests

Tunnel boring machine (TBM) manufacturer Robbins Company this week completed factory acceptance tests (FAT) in Bengaluru on their first machine for Bhopal…

06 Jul 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bhopal Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Titagarh Wins Mumbai Metro Line-5’s 132 Coach & Signaling Contract CA-241

Titagarh Rail Systems last week was declared as the lowest bidder to supply five major critical systems for Mumbai Metro’s 24.90 km Line-5 (Orange Line)…

30 Jun 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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L&T’s Patna Metro TBM-1 Records Breakthrough at PMCH Station

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) two weeks ago celebrated their fifth tunnel breakthrough at PMCH Station for 30.91 km Patna Metro Phase 1 project’s…

29 Jun 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Patna Metro ⋅ 5 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

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