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…

28 Jun 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Gurgaon Metro ⋅ 7 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)…

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…

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…

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…

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 ⋅ 20 Comments
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Afcons – Sam JV Records Agra Metro’s Final Tunnel Breakthrough

Afcons Infrastructure – Sam India Consortium last Tuesday celebrated tunnel boring machine (TBM) 324’s final breakthrough at Mankameshwar Mandir…

09 Jun 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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8 Bidders for Gurgaon Metro HUDA – Cyber City Line’s Contract CC-01

Eight civil engineering firms last week submitted bids for the first civil construction package CC-01 of Gurgaon Metro’s 28.5 km new line connecting…

20 May 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Gurgaon Metro ⋅ 16 Comments
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MEIL Wins Gaimukh – Fountain Hotel Tunnel & Elevated Road’s Contracts in Thane

Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd. (MEIL) today was declared as the lowest bidder for the civil construction of a 5.5 km underground road tunnel…

20 May 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways, Tunnels ⋅ 6 Comments
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DRA-Siemens JV Wins Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train’s Signaling Contract S1

June 9, 2025 Update: NHSRCL has awarded DRA Infracon – Siemens JV with a INR 4140,06,36,399.90 contract. May 18, 2025 Original Post: DRA Infracon…

18 May 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 9 Comments
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AECOM-led JV Wins Thane Metro’s General Consultant Contract

A consortium of AECOM India Pvt. Ltd. – Egis Rail S.A. – Doyen Engineeering Services Pvt. Ltd. this Friday was declared as the preferred bidder…

18 May 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Thane Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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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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