14 Bidders for Surat Metro Line-2’s Packages CS5 & CS6

14 firms and consortia have submitted 15 bids to Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation…

06 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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8 Bidders for Surat Metro Line-1 Package CS4’s Work

8 civil construction firms have submitted bids to Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation…

04 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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Trials Begin Through Ahmedabad Metro’s Tunnels & Sabarmati Bridge

Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) on Friday launched train testing on a…

03 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 15 Comments
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L&T Awarded Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train’s T3 Track Contract

Larsen & Toubro has been awarded a Rs. 3141.99 crore contract for track…

02 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 3 Comments
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Bids Invited for Surat Metro Bhesan Depot’s Work

Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) in April-end invited tenders for…

02 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Bids Invited for Ahmedabad Metro Phase 2’s 30 Coach Contract RS3

Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) this week invited tenders to manufacture…

01 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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NCC Casts Patna Metro Phase 1’s 1st Pier Cap

NCC Ltd. this week began pouring concrete to cast the first 9.5m wide pier cap…

01 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Patna Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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KEC Launches Delhi Meerut RRTS Package 1’s Final Segment

KEC International – CCECC JV this week celebrated completion of the 7.3…

01 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 5 Comments
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NCC Casts Pune Metro Reach 2 Viaduct’s Final Segment

NCC Ltd. this week celebrated casting the final box segment for the 7.15 km Reach-2 section’s viaduct of Pune Metro’s Aqua Line…

01 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Hitachi & Nippon Signal Bid for Chennai Metro Line 3’s Signaling

Hitachi Rail STS India Pvt. ltd. and Nippon Signal Co. Ltd. have bid for Chennai Metro Line-3’s Signalling and Train Control and Video Management…

01 May 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Altinok & RITES Bid for Dehradun – Tehri Tunnel’s DPR

Altinok Consulting Engineering Inc. and RITES Ltd. have submitted bids to prepare a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for a new road tunnel between Dehradun…

29 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Other, Tunnels ⋅ 6 Comments
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6 Bidders for MRTS Feasibility in Salem, Trichy & Tirunelveli

6 firms have submitted bids to prepare a Feasibility Study Report for introducing a mass rapid transit system (MRTS) in Salem, Tiruchirappalli &…

29 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro, Other ⋅ 5 Comments
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RVNL Casts Indore Metro Super Corridor Section’s 1st Segment

Engineers from Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. (RVNL) on Monday began pouring concrete to cast segments for Indore Metro Yellow Line‘s 10.927 km MR10…

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 from their West Bengal plant for Pune Metro’s Phase 1 lines connecting…

26 Apr 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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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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