RVNL Casts Indore Metro Super Corridor Section’s 1st Segment

Engineers from Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. (RVNL) on Monday began pouring concrete…

26 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Indore Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Titagarh Dispatches Pune Metro’s 1st Train Built in India

Titagarh Wagons last week dispatched Pune Metro’s first locally built trainset…

26 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Mumbai Metro Line 6’s Girder Launched over Line 2A by JKIL

J Kumar Infraprojects’ engineers last week launched a 48 meter special…

26 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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L&T’s TBM Lavi Records Breakthrough at Bangalore Metro’s MG Road

Larsen & Toubro’s Tunnel Boring Machine Lavi (DZ672) on April 15 recorded…

26 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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Agra Metro Underground Line’s Construction Begins at Agra Fort

Afcons – SAM India JV on Monday officially started construction work for Agra…

25 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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3 Bidders for Trans Haryana Expressway’s Jalbehra – Shahbad Extn

3 construction firms have submitted bids to build and operate the 22.85 km Jalbehra…

24 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 3 Comments
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Himcon Begins Delhi Metro Mukundpur Depot’s Expansion Work

Himcon Engineers (India) has started remodeling work at Delhi Metro Pink Line’s…

24 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Bids Invited for Bangalore Metro Phase 2’s 72 Coach Contract

With the execution of CRRC’s 216 coach contract going nowhere, Bangalore…

23 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 28 Comments
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4 Bidders for Imphal Airport’s New Terminal Contract

Four construction firms have submitted bids for the new integrated terminal building of Imphal International Airport in Manipur after Airports Authority…

22 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Airports ⋅ 1 Comment
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KCC Wins Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor C-1 Priority Section’s Contract

May 14, 2022 Update: KCC Buildcon has been issued LOA with a contract value of Rs. 158,16,56,102.31 April 22 Original Post: KCC Buildcon Pvt Ltd. on Tuesday…

22 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor ⋅ 8 Comments
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SYSTRA Wins Agra & Kanpur Metro Line 2’s DDC Contract

May 17, 2022 Update: UPMRC has issued contract LOA to SYSTRA with a value of INR 22,49,55,300.00 and EURO 1,57,500.00 (equivalent to INR 23,85,00,300.00)…

18 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro, Kanpur Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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Alstom Wins Chennai Metro Phase 2’s 78 Coach Contract

November 2023 Update: Alstom and CMRL have signed a deal for another 30 coaches (see details) taking the total order to 108 coaches (36 trains) April 2022…

14 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 13 Comments
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4 Bidders for Ludhiana Bypass’ Construction Work

4 construction firms have submitted bids to construct the 25.24 km Southern Ludhiana Bypass (Ring Road) in Punjab after National Highways Authority of…

14 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 1 Comment
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Work Begins for Delhi Metro’s Underground Magenta Line DC-05

Cengrs Geotechnica through a subcontract from Afcons Infrastructure last week began geotechnical and geophysical investigation work for Package DC05 of…

14 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 9 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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