Delhi – Meerut RRTS Line’s Meerut South Station Opens for Operations

National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) today extended passenger…

18 Aug 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 10 Comments
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Bangalore Metro Begins Trial Runs to Madavara on Green Line

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) on Saturday morning started…

18 Aug 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Ceigall Casts Agra Metro AGCC-05’s First Pier Cap

Ceigall India and its subcontractor Dixcon Infra this Thursday began casting…

18 Aug 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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JKIL – MEPL’s Terratec TBM Records Breakthrough for Mumbai Sewage Project

J Kumar Infraprojects – Michigan Engineers JV on Friday celebrated the first…

17 Aug 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 0 Comments
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Thane Metro’s Ring Line Approved by Central Government

India’s Central Government’s Cabinet on Friday officially approved the…

17 Aug 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Thane Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Pune Metro’s Swargate – Katraj Extension Approved by Central Government

India’s Central Government’s Cabinet on Friday officially approved the…

17 Aug 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Bangalore Metro’s Phase 3 Approved by Central Government

India’s Central Government’s Cabinet today officially approved the…

16 Aug 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 15 Comments
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ADB Approves Nagpur Metro Phase 2’s $200mn Loan

The Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s updated website indicates the bank…

16 Aug 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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NCC Wins Bankot Creek Bridge’s Contract in Maharashtra

August 23, 2024 Update: MSRDC has cancelled the tender and re-invited bids for construction. August 14, 2024 Original Post: NCC Ltd. in July-end was was…

14 Aug 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bridges ⋅ 0 Comments
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L&T Wins Agra Metro Line-2’s AGCC-07 Construction Contract

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) was today declared as the lowest bidder for civil construction contract AGCC07 of Agra Metro Phase 1 project’s 15.09…

13 Aug 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 36 Comments
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KPIL – Gulermak Casts Kanpur Metro Line-2’s 1st Tunnel Segment

Kalpataru Projects International Ltd. (KPIL) – Gulermak JV today began pouring concrete to cast the first batch of tunnel ring segments for…

12 Aug 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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L&T Awarded Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor’s Electrification Contract SYS-1

This development from Q1 2024 might not be news to some of you, but has finally been confirmed thanks to follower Kanishka who shared the latest edition…

10 Aug 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor ⋅ 1 Comment
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6 Bidders for Nagpur Metro Phase 2’s Electrification Contract TR-03

Six firms have submitted bids for the electrification system of Nagpur Metro’s 43.8 km Phase 2 project after Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation…

09 Aug 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Ranjit Buildcon Awarded Bhubaneswar Metro BBC-03’s Contract

Ranjit Buildcon Ltd. (RBL) on Thursday was awarded a Rs. 561.21 crore contract to construct Package BBC-03 of Bhubaneswar Metro’s Phase 1 project…

09 Aug 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bhubaneswar Metro ⋅ 8 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
• Patna: October 6, 2025 – 3.2 km

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