Chennai Metro Phase 2: L&T, KEC & BEL Bid for Telecom Contract

3 firms have submitted bids to commission Chennai Metro line 3 and 5’s telecommunications…

14 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Jaipur Metro Phase 1C & 1D: Ayesa & CEG Bid for DDC Contract

Bidders for Jaipur Metro’s Phase 1C and Phase 1D‘s…

12 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Jaipur Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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6 Bidders for Bhopal Metro’s Underground Contract BH-04

6 firms have submitted bids to construct the 3.39 km underground section of…

11 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bhopal Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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3 Bidders for Bihar Museum – Patna Museum Tunnel’s Retender

Four firms (2 in a consortium) have submitted bids to construct a 1.5 km pedestrian…

10 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Patna Metro, Tunnels ⋅ 0 Comments
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Agra Metro’s TBM Yamuna Records Breakthrough at Taj Mahal Station

Afcons Infrastructure – SAM India Consortium on Monday celebrated tunnel boring…

10 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Entire Bangalore Metro Purple Line Opens: Challaghatta – Whitefield

What a historic day. Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) this morning…

09 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 17 Comments
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Pune Metro’s Trial Runs Extended to Ramwadi Station (Reach 3)

Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation (MahaMetro) on Friday night extended trial…

09 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Bangalore Metro’s Purple Line to be Extended Beyond Whitefield

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) this week invited bids for civil…

08 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 39 Comments
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Mumbai Metro Line 2B Shunya Bridge’s Pile Cap Cast in BKC

J Kumar Infraprojects (JKIL) this week completed casting a massive pile cap for the 130 meter long Shunya cable-stayed bridge of Mumbai Metro’s 23.6…

08 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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Gawar Wins Mumbai Pune Expressway – Trans Harbor Elevated Highway’s Work

Gawar Constructions on Thursday was declared as the lowest bidder to construct an elevated corridor to connect the operational Mumbai Pune Expressway (MPE)…

07 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 10 Comments
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MGCPL Launches Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train’s 1st OWG Bridge

M G Contractors Pvt. Ltd. (MGCPL) on Friday completed launching their first open web girder (OWG) bridge for Package P1(B) of the 508.17 km Mumbai…

07 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 0 Comments
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RSIIL Wins Delhi – Mumbai Expressway Packages 8 & 9’s Retender

Roadway Solutions India Infra Ltd. (RSIIL) on Thursday was declared as the lowest bidder for the civil construction contracts of packages 8 and 9 of the…

06 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 5 Comments
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Kanpur Metro’s TBM Tatya Records 3rd Breakthrough at Bada Chauraha

It’s been a day of breakthroughs! Besides L&T recording a NATM tunnel breakthrough for the Mumbai – Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Project,…

06 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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L&T Records Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train’s 1st Mountain Tunnel Breakthrough

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) today recorded the first mountain tunnel breakthrough on 237.1 km Package C4 of the 508.17 km Mumbai – Ahmedabad High…

05 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 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 – 351.2 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 – 58.7 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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