Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train’s OWG Bridge Launched over Delhi – Mumbai Expressway

M G Contractors Pvt. Ltd. (MGCPL) today completed launching an open web girder…

23 Jun 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 7 Comments
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Afcons Awarded Kochi Metro Phase 2’s Construction Contract (Pink Line)

Afcons Infrastructure on Thursday was awarded a Rs. 1141.32 crore contract for…

23 Jun 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kochi Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Afcons Wins Kasheli – Mulund Water Tunnel’s Contract in Mumbai

Afcons Infrastructure on Thursday was declared as the lowest bidder to construct…

23 Jun 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 0 Comments
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SYSTRA Awarded Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train’s Ticketing Consultant Contract

SYSTRA MVA Consulting (India) – SYSTRA JV on Tuesday was awarded a Rs….

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GRIL Launches Bangalore Metro Phase 2 & Pink Line’s Final Segment

GR Infraprojects (GRIL) on Friday morning celebrated launching their final precast…

22 Jun 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Afcons’ Agra Metro TBM Yamuna Records Breakthrough at SN Medical College

Afcons Infrastructure – Sam India Consortium on Friday night celebrated tunnel…

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L&T Relaunches Patna Metro’s TBM-1 from Patna University Station

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) last week recommissioned their first tunnel boring…

21 Jun 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Patna Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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6 Bidders for Nagpur Metro Phase 2’s Package C-02

Six civil engineering firms have submitted bids to construct Package C2 of the…

21 Jun 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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3 Bidders for Bhubaneswar Metro’s Detailed Design Consultant Contract BCDD-02

Three consulting firms have submitted bids for Bhubaneswar Metro Phase 1 project’s Detailed Design Consultant (DDC) contract BCDD-02 after…

19 Jun 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bhubaneswar Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Tata’s TBM S98 Records Chennai Metro Phase 2’s 5th Breakthrough

Tata Projects Ltd. (TPL) on Thursday celebrated tunnel boring machine S98’s second tunnel breakthrough at Otteri Station for the 116.1 km Chennai Metro…

16 Jun 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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Ayesa Wins Bhopal & Indore Metros’ E&M DDC Contract BH-IN-21

Ayesa India was today declared as the lowest bidder for the Detailed Design Consultant (DDC) contract for electrical & mechanical (E&M) systems…

13 Jun 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bhopal Metro, Indore Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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12 Bidders for Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor’s C6 Contract

Twelve firms have bid to construct 64.53 km Package C-6 of the 121.7 km Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor (HORC) project after Haryana Rail Infrastructure…

11 Jun 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor ⋅ 11 Comments
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Siemens – RVNL JV Awarded Bangalore Metro Phase 2A & 2B’s Electrification Contract

Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. (RVNL) in a BSE filing on Monday announced that Siemens – RVNL JV has been awarded a roughly Rs. 762 crore contract for the 750V…

11 Jun 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Tata Casts Chennai Metro Line 5 UG-06’s First Tunnel Segment

Tata Projects Ltd. (TPL) last Friday began pouring concrete to cast the first batch of tunnel ring segments for underground Package UG-06/RT-01 of Chennai…

10 Jun 2024 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 58.68 km
• Delhi: 24 December 2002 – 351.2 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 72.2 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 46.5 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 – 37.9 km
• Nagpur: 8 March 2019 – 38.2 km
• Kanpur – 29 December 2021 – 8.7 km
• Pune: 6 March 2022 – 29.7 km
• Navi Mumbai: 17 November 2023 – 11.1 km
• Agra: March 6 2024 – 5.2 km

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