Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train’s 3rd Bridge Completed over NH-48 by MGCPL

MG Contractors Pvt. Ltd. (MGCPL) last week completed building a 210 meter long…

10 Jan 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 4 Comments
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YFC – BBG JV Wins Nagpur Metro Phase 2’s C-09 Contract

YFC Projects – BBG Infrastructure JV was today declared as the lowest bidder…

09 Jan 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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RITES Awarded Jaipur Metro Phase 2’s DPR Consultant Contract

RITES Ltd. in November was awarded a Rs. 4.69 crore contract by Jaipur Metro…

09 Jan 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Jaipur Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Bids Invited for Delhi Metro Saket – Lajpat Nagar Line’s Contract D2-C02

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Saturday invited bids (tenders) for the…

07 Jan 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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Himcon Wins Delhi Metro Golden Line’s Architectural Finishing Contract DC-09A

January 9, 2025 Update: DMRC has issued LOA to Himcon Engineers with a contract…

07 Jan 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Bangalore Metro Yellow Line’s 1st Titagarh-Built Train Rolls Out

Titagarh Rail Systems today rolled out the first of 14 locally assembled new…

06 Jan 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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GR Infra Begins Nagpur Metro Phase 2’s Work for Package C2

GR Infraprojects Ltd. (GRIL) in December-end officially started construction…

06 Jan 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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Delhi Metro Begins Trial Runs on Pink Line’s Majlis Park – Maujpur Extension

Right before 2024 ended, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) quitely began…

05 Jan 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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NCC Awarded Bengaluru Suburban Rail’s Contract for Package C2A

NCC Ltd. on Tuesday was awarded a Rs. 501.25 crore contract to construct 8 stations under Package C2-A of the 149.35 km Bengaluru Suburban Rail project…

05 Jan 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bengaluru Suburban Rail ⋅ 2 Comments
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3 Bidders Qualify for Pune Metro Nigdi Line’s Station Contract C-02

Three bidders in December-end qualified for the civil construction of 4 elevated stations on Pune Metro Purple Line‘s 4.519 km extension from…

04 Jan 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Kanpur Metro’s Trial Runs Extended to Kanpur Central Station

Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC) in mid-December extended and started trial runs (train testing) between Nayaganj and Kanpur Central stations…

03 Jan 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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3 Bidders for Thane Metro’s General Consultant Contract

Three firms have submitted bids for the General Consultant (GC) contract of the 29 km Thane Metro project after Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation…

03 Jan 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Thane Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Delhi Metro Phase 4’s First Section to Krishna Park to be Inaugurated on Jan 5

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 5 (Sunday) will inaugurate and open the first section of 112.32 km Delhi Metro Phase 4 project per…

03 Jan 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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Agra Metro’s TBM S-718C Records Final Breakthrough at Agra College

Afcons Infrastructure – Sam India Consortium on Wednesday morning celebrated tunnel boring machine (TBM) S-718’s final breakthrough at Agra College…

02 Jan 2025 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 2 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 – 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 – 60.7 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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