Bids Invited for Ahmedabad Metro Phase 2’s Package C3

Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) last week invited tenders for the construction…

13 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 15 Comments
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SNC Casts Bangalore Metro ORR Line’s 1st U-Girder

Shankaranarayana Constructions (SNC) on Friday started pouring concrete to cast…

12 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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4 Bidders for Amas – Darbhanga Expressway’s Construction Work

4 construction firms have submitted a total of 7 bids to construct the 55.002…

12 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 21 Comments
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14 Bidders for Surat – Chennai Expressway’s Package 2 in Telangana

14 construction firms have submitted bids to construct 38.2 km Package 2 of…

12 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 23 Comments
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3 Bidders for Agra & Kanpur Metro Line 2’s DDC Contract

3 firms on Friday submitted bids for the Detailed Design Consultant (DDC) contract…

12 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro, Kanpur Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Mitsui & Ohmi Bid for Chennai Metro Phase 2’s HH Rail Contract

Japan’s Mitsui & Co. Ltd. and Ohmi Industries Ltd. on Wednesday emerged…

10 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 16 Comments
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6 Bidders for Chennai Metro Line-3’s Elevated OMR Section

6 construction firms have bid for constructing Chennai Metro Line-3’s first…

08 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 24 Comments
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Kanpur Metro’s Terratec TBM S93 Arrives for Tunneling

Gulermak – Sam India JV last week received tunnel boring machine…

08 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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L&T Turns Mumbai Coastal Road’s TBM Around

Larsen & Toubro last week rotated tunnel boring machine (TBM) Mavala’s shields using a special turntable at Girgaum’s Chowpatty Ramp for Mumbai’s…

08 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways, Tunnels ⋅ 2 Comments
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SCC-VRS Awarded Mumbai – Ahmedabad Bullet Train’s C8 Contract

India’s National National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd. (NHSRCL) today awarded SCC – VRS JV with a Rs. 307.24 crore contract to construct the…

04 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 17 Comments
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Indore Metro’s Geotechnical Work Underway for Packages 2 & 3

In North Indore, a massive geotechnical investigation exercise has been silently underway since December 2021 for constructing Indore Metro Phase 1’s…

04 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Indore Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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Afcons Casts Delhi-Meerut RRTS Bhaisali Station’s Base Slab

Afcons Infrastructure last night cast the first base slab for Bhaisali Station on the 5.68 km underground Package 8 of the 82.15 km Delhi – Meerut…

03 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 4 Comments
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NCC Begins Bangalore Metro Airport Line’s Test Piling Work

NCC Ltd. over the past fortnight has started test piling activity across all 3 packages of Bangalore Metro’s 37 km Airport Line (Blue Line) which will…

02 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 21 Comments
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Patel’s Terratec TBM T83 in Mumbai Tunnels 653m in January

Remember Soma’s TBM T87 working in Mumbai that bored 526m in December 2021? Its sister machine TBM T83 deployed by Patel Engineering just bored 653m…

01 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Other, Tunnels ⋅ 6 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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