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…

09 Jul 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 10 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…

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

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Friday was declared as the lowest bidder for…

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…

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…

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…

29 Jun 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Patna Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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DB – Hill JV Wins Gurugram Metro HUDA – Cyber City Line’s General Consultant Contract

DB Engineering & Consulting (DB E&C) – Hill International JV earlier this month was declared as the preferred bidder for the General Consultant…

28 Jun 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Gurgaon Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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JKIL’s Delhi Metro TBM Shalini Records Breakthrough at Vasant Kunj

J Kumar Infraprojects (JKIL) on Wednesday celebrated tunnel boring machine (TBM) S64B’s tunnel breakthrough at Vasant Kunj Station of Delhi Metro’s…

27 Jun 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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CEG Wins Indore-Ujjain, Mumbai & Delhi NCR’s New Metro Lines’ Geotechnical Contract

CEG Test House and Research Centre Pvt. Ltd. earlier this month was declared as the lowest bidder for geotechnical soil investigation works of Indore –…

26 Jun 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro, Indore Metro, Mumbai Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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ITD Cem Wins Kolkata Metro Birati Extension’s Underground Contract

ITD Cementation on Tuesday was declared as the lowest bidder for the civil construction contract of 6.87 km Kolkata Metro Line-4’s underground…

25 Jun 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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YFC Bids for Delhi Metro Green Line Extension’s Contract D2C-01

YFC Projects in May-end was declared as the only bidder for the civil construction contract D2C-01 of Delhi Metro Green Line’s extension connecting…

24 Jun 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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HCC Wins Patna Metro’s PC-05 & PC-06 Underground Contracts

Hindustan Construction Co. Ltd. (HCC) on Monday was declared as the lowest bidder for two underground tunneling contracts, PC05 & PC06, of Patna Metro’s Line-1 connecting…

10 Jun 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Patna Metro ⋅ 14 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 – 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 – 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
• Indore: May 31 2025 – 5.8 km

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