Bids Reinvited for Chennai Metro Phase 2’s 210 Coach Contract

Chennai Metro Rail Ltd. (CMRL) on Wednesday re-invited bids from rolling stock…

08 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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3 Bidders for Mumbai’s Goregaon – Mulund Link Road Tunnel Project

Afcons Infrastructure, Larsen & Toubro, NCC – J Kumar Infraprojects…

07 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 6 Comments
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SYSTRA Awarded Kochi Metro Phase 2’s General Consultant Contract

SYSTRA S.A. – SYSTRA MVA Consulting (India) Pvt. Ltd. JV on Monday was appointed…

07 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kochi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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L&T & JKIL-NCC Bid for Mumbai’s Orange Gate – Marine Drive Tunnel Project

Larsen & Toubro and J Kumar Infraprojects – NCC JV are the only 2…

06 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 1 Comment
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KEC JV Begins Ahmedabad Metro Phase 2’s Track-Work

Vijay Nirman Company – KEC International – Emrail JV last week began pouring…

02 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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Titagarh Awarded Surat Metro’s 72 Coach Rolling Stock Contract

Titagarh Rail Systems Ltd. in a regulatory filing on Tuesday announced it was…

28 Jun 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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RVNL Wins Nagpur Metro Phase 2 Viaduct Package C-01’s Contract

September 9, 2023 Update: MMRC has awarded contract LOA to RVNL June 27, 2023…

27 Jun 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Delhi-Meerut RAPIDX TERRATEC TBM S88 Records Breakthrough at Begumpul

Afcons Infrastructure on Saturday celebrated tunnel boring machine S88’s second…

25 Jun 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 0 Comments
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Afcons’ Kanpur Metro TBM S639B Passes Factory Tests

Afcons Infrastructure with assistance from Herrenknecht on Friday completed factory acceptance tests (FAT) on tunnel boring machine S-639B for Kanpur…

25 Jun 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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L&T Wins Kolkata Metro Line-3’s Underground Contract UG1

Larsen & Toubro on Friday was declared as the lowest bidder for Kolkata Metro Purple Line’s 5.05 km UG1 underground civil construction contract…

24 Jun 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 18 Comments
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Delhi-Meerut RAPIDX TBM Sudarshan 4.2 Records 2nd Breakthrough

Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co. Ltd. (STEC) earlier this week quietly celebrated tunnel boring machine Sudarshan 4.2’s second tunnel breakthrough at…

23 Jun 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 0 Comments
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CMRS Approves Navi Mumbai Metro Line-1 Phase 1’s Operations

City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) on Monday received the final statutory approval from the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety…

22 Jun 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Navi Mumbai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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J Kumar Wins Chennai Port-Maduravoyal Expressway’s Package 3

After winning Packages 2, 1 & 4 earlier this month, J Kumar Infraprojects (JKIL) has now also scooped up Package 3 of the 19.88 km Chennai…

22 Jun 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 7 Comments
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JKIL – MEPL’s TBM Records Breakthrough for Mumbai Sewage Project

Mumbai last month saw India’s largest tunnel boring recording a breakthrough, and this past week it was the smallest EPB machine’s turn! J…

21 Jun 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Other, Tunnels ⋅ 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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