Tata’s TBM Kurinji for Chennai Metro’s Line-5 Starts Tunneling

Tata Projects Ltd. (TPL) on Wednesday commissioned their first tunnel boring…

20 Feb 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
Read more

NCC Wins Bengaluru Suburban Rail’s Package C4B for 9 Stations

NCC was today declared as the lowest bidder for the civil construction work…

18 Feb 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bengaluru Suburban Rail ⋅ 4 Comments
Read more

L&T Casts Agra Metro Line-2’s 1st Set of U-Girders

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Monday poured concrete to cast their first…

18 Feb 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
Read more

IRCON Wins Mumbai Metro Line-6’s Power Supply & E&M Contract CA-233

Besides Line-4’s systems Package CA-236, IRCON International on Thursday…

16 Feb 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
Read more

IRCON – Jakson JV Wins Mumbai Metro Line-4’s Power Supply & E&M Contract CA-236

IRCON International – Jakson Ltd. JV on Wednesday was declared as the…

16 Feb 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
Read more

L&T – Alstom Win Mumbai Metro Line 4’s Rolling Stock & Signaling Contract CA-234

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

15 Feb 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
Read more

5 Bidders for Hyderabad Regional Ring Road Southern Section’s DPR Consultant

Five design and engineering firms have submitted bids to prepare a Detailed…

12 Feb 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 6 Comments
Read more

HGIEL Launches Delhi Metro’s U-Girders at Mongolpuri over Railway Line

H.G. Infra Engineering (HGIEL) this week launched two pre-stressed concrete…

08 Feb 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
Read more

Mumbai Metro Line-6’s Station Finishing Contracts Awarded for 13 Stations

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) in January awarded 3 contracts for architectural finishing work at 13 elevated stations of Mumbai…

04 Feb 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
Read more

6th OWG for Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train Launched over WDFC near Surat

M G Contractors Pvt. Ltd. (MGCPL) on Friday completed launching their sixth open web girder (OWG) bridge for the 508.17 Mumbai – Ahmedabad High Speed…

03 Feb 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 5 Comments
Read more

No Bidders for Gurugram Metro’s Proof Checking Consultant Contract

Gurugram Metro Rail Ltd. (GMRL) this week received zero bids for the Proof Checking Consultant contract of Gurgaon Metro‘s 28.5 km new…

02 Feb 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Gurgaon Metro ⋅ 13 Comments
Read more

3 Bidders for Bengaluru Suburban Rail’s Head Hardened Rails Contract

Three firms on Friday submitted bids to supply 19000 MT of head-hardened rails for the 149.35 km Bengaluru Suburban Rail project after Karnataka’s…

02 Feb 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bengaluru Suburban Rail ⋅ 2 Comments
Read more

URCC Wins Bangalore Metro Veerannapalya Station’s Contract for Pending Work

February 7, 2025 Update: BMRCL has issued LOA and awarded a Rs. 35.74 crore contract to URC Constructions. February 1, 2025 Original Post: URC Constructions…

01 Feb 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
Read more

L&T Casts Agra Metro Line-2’s 1st Pile Cap at Agra Cantt

Larsen & Toubro this week poured concrete to cast their first pile cap for the civil construction of Agra Metro Phase 1 project’s 15.09…

01 Feb 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
Read more

Buy me a beer :)

Also see other ways to support the site

Become a Member

Sign up below to receive early access to all updates and a weekly list of tenders where technical bids are planned to open that week

Receive Instant Email Notifications

Missing out sucks. That's why my instant email for each post is so important. You'll be up-to-date on the latest happenings.

Quick Snapshot

View Quick Snapshot

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 – 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 – 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

The Metro Rail Guy
© Copyright - The Metro Rail Guy