Bangalore Metro’s TBM Rudra Records Breakthrough at Lakkasandra

Tunnel Boring Machine S-1259 operated by Afcons Infrastructure on Friday evening…

29 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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Afcons Bids for Bihar Museum – Patna Museum Tunnel Project

Afcons Infrastructure today emerged as the only bidder for a 1.5 km pedestrian…

28 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Patna Metro, Tunnels ⋅ 9 Comments
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13 Bidders for Chennai Port – Maduravoyal Expressway Project

13 civil engineering firms have submitted a total of 24 bids to construct 19.88…

27 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 4 Comments
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L&T Launches Chennai Metro Adyar River Bridge’s 1st Pier Cap

Larsen & Toubro on Saturday evening erected their first 9.5m wide pier cap…

26 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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L&T & MEIL Win Thane – Borivali Tunnel Project’s Work in Mumbai

May 12, 2023 Update: MEIL has been declared as the preferred bidder for both…

25 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 21 Comments
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Afcons – SAM JV’s Agra Metro TBM Yamuna Records 1st Breakthrough

Afcons Infrastructure – SAM India Consortium this morning celebrated the first…

25 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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NCC Awarded Mumbai Metro Line-2B’s Contract for Pending Work

April 25, 2023 Update: Per the comment section, it appears the contract was…

24 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 19 Comments
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Egis Wins Kochi Metro Phase 2’s Detailed Design Consultant Contract

Egis Rail earlier this month was declared as the lowest bidder for Kochi Metro…

21 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kochi Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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SYSTRA-RITES-DB JV Wins Hyderabad Metro Airport Line’s General Consultant Contract

SYSTRA – RITES – DB Engineering JV has been declared as the preferred bidder for the General Consultant (GC) contract of Hyderabad Metro’s 31…

21 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Hyderabad Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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Afcons – SAM JV’s Agra Metro TBM S718C Passes Factory Tests

Tunnel boring machine manufacturer Herrenknecht on Tuesday completed factory acceptance tests (FAT) on TBM S-718C, the third machine of the 29.40…

20 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Afcons Casts Delhi Metro Silver Line Airforce Shaft’s Base Slab

Afcons Infrastructure on Friday night poured concrete to cast the 1st base slab for the Airforce TBM Launch Shaft of Delhi Metro’s 23.622 km Silver…

17 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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NCC Launches Bangalore Metro Airport Line’s 1st U-Girder

NCC Ltd. on Thursday night launched the 1st set of U-girders for Bangalore Metro’s 37 km Airport Line (Blue Line) which will link Bengaluru’s Kempegowda…

15 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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DMRC Wins Mumbai Metro Line-3’s O&M Contract

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) today beat Keolis to emerge as the lowest bidder for the Operations & Maintenance (O&M) contract of Mumbai…

13 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro, Mumbai Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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4 Bidders for Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train’s C3 Package

June 16, 2023 Update: Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is lowest bidder – see details April 12, 2023 Original Post: 4 firms (3 in a consortium) have…

12 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 29 Comments
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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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