KTK Awarded Delhi Metro Phase 4’s Platform Screen Door Contract

KTG Group Co. Ltd. was last week awarded a Rs. 236.25 crore contract (Package…

11 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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L&T Wins 31 Km Hyderabad Airport Metro Line’s Contract

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is the lowest bidder for the civil construction…

10 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Hyderabad Metro ⋅ 17 Comments
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Agra Metro’s TBM Shivaji Launched from Taj Mahal Station by Afcons

Afcons Infrastructure – SAM India JV on Wednesday commissioned their third…

10 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Tata’s Chennai Metro Phase 2 TBM S96 Records Breakthrough

Tata Projects Ltd. (TPL) on Monday celebrated tunnel boring machine S96’s…

08 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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BEML Awarded Bangalore Metro’s 318 Coach Rolling Stock Contract 5RS-DM

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) on Monday awarded BEML with…

08 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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ITD Lowers Chennai Metro Line-4’s 1st Tunnel Boring Machine

ITD Cementation on Tuesday started lowering and assembling their first tunnel…

05 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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ITD’s Chennai Metro TBM S1075B Passes Factory Tests

Tunnel boring machine manufacturer Herrenknecht on Tuesday completed factory…

03 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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NCC – JKIL JV Wins Mumbai’s GMLR Tunnel Contract

September 22, 2023 Update: BMC has issued LOA contract to NCC – J Kumar…

29 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 1 Comment
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4 Bidders for Mumbai Pune Expressway – Trans Harbor Elevated Highway’s Work

4 civil engineering firms have submitted bids to connect the operational Mumbai Pune Expressway (MPE) and under construction Mumbai Trans Harbour Link…

28 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 2 Comments
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Afcons Records Delhi-Meerut RAPIDX Package 8’s Final Tunnel Breakthrough

Afcons Infrastructure on Tuesday celebrated tunnel boring machine S89’s second tunnel breakthrough at Begumpul RapidX Station’s South Shaft for the 82.15…

26 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 2 Comments
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Tata Wins Chennai Metro Line-5’s UG06 Tunneling Contract

Tata Projects Ltd. (TPL) was today declared as the lowest bidder for the civil construction of underground Package UG-06/RT-01 of Chennai Metro’s 44.6…

25 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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Afcons-SAM’s Agra Metro TBM Shivaji Lowered at Taj Mahal Station

Afcons Infrastructure – SAM India JV last week started lowering and assembling parts of their third tunnel boring machine, S-718C, at Taj Mahal Station of…

24 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Afcons-SAM’s Agra Metro TBM Yamuna Records Breakthrough at Midshaft

Afcons Infrastructure – SAM India Consortium this past weekend quitely celebrated TBM Yamuna’s breakthrough at Shahjahan Gardens Midshaft of the 29.40…

21 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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L&T Wins Mumbai’s Orange Gate – Marine Drive Tunnel Contract

September 29, 2023 Update: MMRDA has awarded L&T with Orange Gate – Marine Drive tunnel project’s contract. July 20, 2023 Original Post: Larsen…

20 Jul 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 13 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 – 353.3 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 94.3 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 68.5 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

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