5 Bidders for Chennai Metro Phase 2’s Electrification Contract

5 firms have bid for installing and commissioning Chennai Metro line 3 and 5’s…

09 Jun 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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9 Bidders for Ghaziabad – Kanpur Expressway’s DPR Work

9 firms have bid for preparing a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Ghaziabad…

08 Jun 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 25 Comments
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ITD Begins Work on Chennai Metro Phase 2’s Casting Yard

ITD Cementation India has in the past fortnight started ground work to setup…

08 Jun 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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BARSYL & LIPL Bid for Noida Metro Extension’s OHE Design

Balaji Railroad Systems Pvt. Ltd and Leap Infraasys Pvt. Ltd are the only…

08 Jun 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Noida & Greater Noida Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Motorola Wins Delhi Metro Phase 4’s Radio Contract

June 24, 2022 Update: Motorola Solutions has been issued LOA with a contract…

05 Jun 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Tata’s TBM S79 Records Pune Metro’s Final Breakthrough

Gulermak – Tata Projects JV on Saturday celebrated the completion of tunneling…

05 Jun 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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Voestalpine & Vossloh Bid for Delhi Metro Phase 4’s Crossovers

Voestalpine VAE VKN India and Vossloh Cogifer are the two firms that have…

02 Jun 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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L&T Awarded Chennai Metro Line-3 OMR Section’s Contract

Larsen & Toubro last week was awarded a Rs. 963 crore contract to construct…

02 Jun 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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9 Bidders for Saharanpur Airport’s New Terminal Contract

Nine construction firms have submitted bids for the new terminal building of Saharanpur Airport in Uttar Pradesh after Airports Authority of India (AAI)…

23 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Airports ⋅ 11 Comments
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Siemens Wins Chennai Metro Line 4’s Electrification Contract

August 30, 2022 Update: CMRL has issued LOA and awarded Siemens with a contract valued at Rs. 349,43,72,377.00 (Rs. 349.43 crore). May 22, 2022 Original…

22 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Terratec Completes Chennai Metro Phase 2 TBM S96’s Factory Tests

Tunnel boring machine manufacturer Terratec has completed factory acceptance tests (FAT) in China on S96 – the 1st of 4 new machines for Package…

22 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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SNC Launches Bangalore Metro ORR Line’s 1st Pier Cap

Shankaranarayana Constructions (SNC) on Friday early morning erected their first 9.5m wide pier cap in Mahadevapura for Bangalore Metro’s 56 km Blue…

22 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 15 Comments
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7 Bidders for Chennai Metro Line 3’s Sholinganallur – SIPCOT Section

7 construction firms have submitted bids to construct Chennai Metro Line-3’s 10.13 km Sholinganallur Lake – SIPCOT 2 section after CMRL opened technical…

20 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Ceigall Wins Trans Haryana Expressway’s Jalbehra – Shahbad Extn

Ceigall India Ltd. on Tuesday emerged as the lowest bidder to construct and operate the 22.85 km Jalbehra – Shahbad extension (NH 152G) of the 227 km…

20 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 0 Comments
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 58.68 km
• Delhi: 24 December 2002 – 351.2 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 72.2 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 46.5 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 – 37.9 km
• Nagpur: 8 March 2019 – 38.2 km
• Kanpur – 29 December 2021 – 8.7 km
• Pune: 6 March 2022 – 29.7 km
• Navi Mumbai: 17 November 2023 – 11.1 km
• Agra: March 6 2024 – 5.2 km

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