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 ⋅ 26 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 ⋅ 48 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…

08 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 3 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…

07 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 11 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…

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 ⋅ 7 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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Mumbai Metro Line 9 to be Extended to Dongri with 2 New Stations

Besides Mumbai Metro Line-2B’s extension to Cheeta Camp, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has firmed up plans to extend…

04 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 17 Comments
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Afcons’ Delhi Metro Silver Line TBM S1264B Passes Factory Tests

Afcons Infrastructure with assistance from Herrenknecht last week completed factory acceptance tests (FAT) on TBM S-1264B for constructing Delhi Metro’s 23.622…

03 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Ahmedabad Metro Phase 2 C2’s Final U-Girder Launched by RBL

Ranjit Buildcon Ltd. (RBL) on Friday celebrated the launch of their final of 354 U-girders for civil Package C2 of the 28.254 km Ahmedabad Metro Phase…

02 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 73.1 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 – 79.5 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
• Bhopal: December 21, 2025 – 6.2 km

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