Delhi-Meerut RRTS’ TBM S88 Records Breakthrough at Meerut Central

Afcons Infrastructure on Thursday celebrated tunnel boring machine S88’s…

16 Dec 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 4 Comments
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Afcons Casts Delhi Metro Silver Line’s 1st Tunnel Segment for DC-07

Afcons Infrastructure on Monday began pouring concrete to cast the first batch…

15 Dec 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Bangalore Metro’s TBM Vamika Records Breakthrough at Lakkasandra

Tunnel Boring Machine S-1260 operated by Afcons Infrastructure on Monday recorded…

13 Dec 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 14 Comments
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Tata’s Chennai Metro TBM S81B Passes Factory Tests

Tunnel boring machine manufacturer Terratec last week completed factory acceptance…

13 Dec 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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SMS & Kalyan Win Durg – Raipur – Arang Expressway’s Work

SMS Ltd – Mehrotra Buildcon Pvt Ltd JV and Kalyan Toll Infrastructure…

08 Dec 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 0 Comments
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Joint Stock Wins Paniyala–Barodameo Expressway’s Work in Rajasthan

Joint Stock Company Industrial Association Vozrozhdenie last week emerged as…

08 Dec 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 5 Comments
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Kanpur Metro’s 1st TBM Breakthrough Recorded at Nayaganj

Gulermak – Sam India Builtwell JV on Tuesday celebrated their tunnel boring…

07 Dec 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Siemens Wins Indian Railways’ 1200 Electric Locomotive Contract

Siemens Ltd. with a bid of Rs. 13,177 crore has emerged as the lowest bidder…

07 Dec 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Other ⋅ 22 Comments
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ITD Cem Casts Chennai Metro Line-4’s 1st Tunnel Segment

ITD Cementation India Ltd. on Monday began pouring concrete to cast their very first tunnel ring segment for constructing Chennai Metro Line-4’s 10 km…

06 Dec 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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L&T – Sojitz JV Awarded Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train’s D2 Sabarmati Depot Contract

Sojitz Corporation – Larsen & Toubro JV have been awarded a roughly Rs. 3773 crore contract for Sabarmati Depot’s construction (Package…

05 Dec 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 6 Comments
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Mumbai Metro Line-3’s Final TBM Breakthrough Recorded by Tansa 1

What a moment. Tunnel Boring Machine 1238 operated by Doğuş-Soma JV on Wednesday afternoon arrived at Mumbai Central Station on Mumbai Metro’s new 33.5…

01 Dec 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Mumbai Metro Line-6’s 56m Girders Placed Over WEH and Line-7

J Kumar Infraprojects this past week launched three 56m long steel composite girders for the 15.18 km Mumbai Metro Line-6 (Pink Line) project…

22 Nov 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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8 Bidders for Chennai Metro Phase 2 Extension’s Feasibility Report

8 design and engineering firms have bid to prepare 3 detailed feasibility reports (DFR) for extending the 118.9 km Chennai Metro Phase 2 project by…

20 Nov 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Paras Awarded Delhi Metro Pink Line Extension’s Track Work

Paras Railtech Pvt. Ltd. this week was awarded a Rs. 67.67 crore contract to supply and install standard gauge tracks for Delhi Metro’s Pink Line (Line-7)…

20 Nov 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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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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