L&T Wins Bengaluru Suburban Rail Kanaka Line 4’s Civil Contract

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) was today declared as the lowest bidder for the…

31 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bengaluru Suburban Rail ⋅ 8 Comments
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Bangalore Metro’s TBM Vamika Records Breakthrough at Langford Town

Afcons Infrastructure on Wednesday celebrated Tunnel Boring Machine S-1260’s…

31 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Titagarh Awarded Ahmedabad Metro Phase 2’s 30 Coach Contract RS3

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

30 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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STEC Records Delhi-Meerut RAPIDX’s Final TBM Breakthrough in Vaishali

That’s a wrap! Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co. Ltd. (STEC) today celebrated…

29 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 3 Comments
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ST Only Bidder for Chennai Metro Line 3 & 5’s Platform Screen Door Retender

Singapore’s ST Engineering Electronics Ltd. is once again the only bidder…

24 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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8 Bidders for Bhopal Metro Package BH03’s Civil Contract

8 construction firms have submitted bids for 27.87 km Bhopal Metro Phase…

22 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bhopal Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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5 Bidders for Indore Metro’s Package IN04’s Civil Contract

5 construction firms have submitted bids for 33.53 km Indore Metro Phase 1 project‘s…

21 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Indore Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Afcons Lowers Kanpur Metro’s TBM S640B at Kanpur Central

Afcons Infrastructure on Friday started lowering and assembling their first…

21 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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RBL Launches Ahmedabad Metro’s Steel Girders at CH-0 Circle

Ranjit Buildcon Ltd. (RBL) earlier this month launched two 47 meter long steel composite girders for constructing the viaduct of 28.254 km Ahmedabad Metro…

21 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Afcons Wins Jaipur Metro Phase 1C’s Underground Contract

September 4, 2023 Update: JMRC has issued LOA to Afcons Infrastructure with a contract value of Rs. 630.45 crore August 18, 2023 Original Post: Afcons…

18 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Jaipur Metro ⋅ 20 Comments
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Simplex Launches Bangalore Metro Reach 3C’s Final Steel Girder

Simplex Infrastructure last week launched the final 53m long steel composite girder for Bangalore Metro Green Line’s 3.031 km Reach 3C project on Tumkur…

17 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Terratec’s Delhi Metro TBM Narayani Passes Factory Tests for Silver Line

J Kumar Infraprojects and tunnel boring machine (TBM) manufacturer Terratec this Saturday completed factory acceptance tests (FAT) in Mumbai on TBM S-111…

15 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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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 DS-08) by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to install Platform Screen…

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 and system procurement contract of Hyderabad Metro’s 31 km Airport…

10 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Hyderabad Metro ⋅ 17 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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