Afcons’ Delhi Metro Phase 4 TBMs S710 & S1134 Pass Factory Tests

Tunnel boring machine manufacturer Herrenknecht this week completed factory…

18 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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L&T’s 1st Chennai Metro Phase 2 TBM Kaveri Starts Tunneling

Larsen & Toubro on Thursday commissioned S-1327A – their 1st of 8…

17 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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L&T, ITD & Afcons Bid for Kolkata Metro Line-3’s Underground Work

3 firms – Larsen & Toubro, ITD Cementation India and Afcons Infrastructure…

16 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 15 Comments
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RBL Casts Ahmedabad Metro Phase 2 Package C3’s 1st Pier

Ranjit Buildcon Ltd. last week poured concrete to cast the very first pier for…

16 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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L&T’s Bangalore Metro TBM Lavi Records Breakthrough at RMS

Larsen & Toubro’s Tunnel Boring Machine Lavi (DZ672) on Wednesday recorded…

16 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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5 Bidders for Delhi – Katra Expressway’s Package 18 in J&K

Five firms today submitted bids to construct 15.3 km Package 18 of the roughly…

15 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 1 Comment
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Bids Invited for Agra Metro Line-2’s AGCC-06 Elevated Contract

October 18 2023 Update: Tender has been cancelled by UPMRC without offering…

15 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 17 Comments
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Jindal Wins Mumbai Metro Line-4’s Head Hardened Rails Contract

Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. (JSPL) on February 1 was declared as the lowest…

14 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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KSM Awarded Delhi-Meerut RRTS Modipuram Depot’s Contract

The final civil contractor of the 82.15 km Delhi – Meerut RRTS project is now known to me. KSM Bashir Mohammad & Sons on December 28 was awarded…

14 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 7 Comments
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SP Singla Wins Revas – Karanja Bridge’s Contract Near Mumbai

May 8, 2023 Update: Tender has been cancelled without a proper reason February 13, 2023 Original Post: SP Singla Constructions (SPSCL) was today declared…

13 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bridges ⋅ 2 Comments
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TLL-EVRASCON JV Wins Shudmahadev – Dranga Tunnel’s Contract

Transrail Lighting Ltd – Euro-Asian Construction Corporation (EVRASCON) JV on Friday was declared as the lowest bidder to construct the 8 km Shudmahadev…

12 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 50 Comments
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4 Bidders for Bangalore Metro’s 318 Coach Contract

Four firms – Alstom Transport India, BEML, CAF and Titagarh Wagons have bid to supply 318 new metro coaches (rolling stock) for the 73.92 km Bangalore…

10 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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L&T Casts Chennai Metro Line-3’s 1st U-Girder & Pile Cap on OMR

Larsen & Toubro in the past fortnight has recorded two significant milestones for constructing Chennai Metro Line-3’s first 10 km elevated section…

10 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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L&T & Afcons Bid for Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train’s C2 Package

Larsen & Toubro and Afcons Infrastructure are the only firms that have submitted bids to construct 20.377 km Package C-2 of the 508.17 km Mumbai…

09 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 7 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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