Dilip Buildcon Wins Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor’s C5 Contract

Dilip Buildcon (DBL) on Monday was declared as the lowest bidder to construct…

09 Apr 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor ⋅ 2 Comments
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Texmaco Begins Delhi Metro Magenta Line’s Track Work for Phase 4 Extension

Texmaco Rail & Engineering this Tuesday officially began track laying activities…

06 Apr 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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JKIL – MEPL’s Terratec TBM S116 Passes Factory Tests for Mumbai’s Sewage Project

Terratec has completed factory acceptance tests (FAT) in Guangzhou, China on…

03 Apr 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 1 Comment
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KPIL – Gulermak Begins Work on Kanpur Metro Line 2’s Underground Section

Kalpataru Projects International Ltd. (KPIL) – Gulermak JV on Monday officially…

02 Apr 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Pune Metro Line-3 Double Decker Viaduct’s 1st Segment Launched

Workers from Pune IT City Metro Rail Ltd. this week began launching 8.5m wide…

31 Mar 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Kanpur Metro’s TBM Azad Records Breakthrough at Nayaganj Station

It’s been a week of breakthroughs! After TBM Narmada in Surat, TBM Azad…

28 Mar 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Surat Metro’s TBM Narmada Records Breakthrough at Central Warehouse Station

Gulermak – Sam India Builtwell JV on Tuesday celebrated tunnel boring machine…

27 Mar 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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URC Begins Chennai Metro Line-3 UG-03’s Work at Thousand Lights

Starting with the Thousand Lights Crossover, URC Construction on Sunday officially…

26 Mar 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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RVNL & YFC Bid for Nagpur Metro Phase 2’s C-06 & C-08 Contracts

Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) and YFC Projects – BBG Infrastructure JV last week emerged as the only two bidders to construct packages C6 and C8…

24 Mar 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Asis Elektronik Wins Bhopal & Indore Metros’ Automatic Fare Collection Contract

Turkey’s Asis Elektronik ve Bilişim Sistemleri A.Ş was today declared as the lowest bidder for the Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) contract (Package…

23 Mar 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bhopal Metro, Indore Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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PINI Awarded Pune Metro Katraj Extension’s Design Consultant Contract DDC-02R

PINI India Pvt. Ltd. (PIPL) last week was awarded a Rs. 6.84 crore contract to provide Detailed Design Consultancy (DDC) services for Pune Metro Purple…

23 Mar 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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Afcons Wins Kochi Metro Phase 2’s Construction Contract (Pink Line)

Afcons Infrastructure was today declared as the lowest bidder for the civil construction work of Kochi Metro’s Phase 2 project under Package…

22 Mar 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kochi Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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Cengrs Begins Gurugram Metro HUDA – Cyber City Line’s Geotechnical Work

Cengrs Goetechnica on Wednesday started geotechnical soil investigation work for Gurgaon Metro‘s new 28.50 km ring line which will connect HUDA (Millennium)…

22 Mar 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Gurgaon Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Vossloh Awarded Bangalore Metro Phase 2A & 2B’s Track Turnouts Contract

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL)’s updated website indicates Vossloh Cogifer Turnouts India Pvt. Ltd. last week was awarded a…

22 Mar 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 0 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 – 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

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