7 Bidders for Raipur – Vizag Expressway’s Package CG-2

7 construction firms have submitted bids to construct 56.7 km package CG2 of…

01 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 3 Comments
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Terratec Completes Surat Metro TBM S94’s Factory Tests

Tunnel boring machine (TBM) manufacturer Terratec in January completed factory…

01 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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Noida – Jewar Airport Metro’s Geotechnical Work Underway

Cengrs Geotechnica Pvt Ltd. has completed more than half of geotechnical investigation…

31 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro, Noida & Greater Noida Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Altinok Sole Bidder for Dehradun – Tehri Tunnel’s DPR

March 3, 2022 Update: Tender has been cancelled January 31 Original Post: Turkey’s…

31 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 7 Comments
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KSM Wins Indore Metro Gandhi Nagar Depot’s Work

KSM Bashir Mohammad and Sons today emerged as the lowest bidder for the construction…

31 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Indore Metro ⋅ 15 Comments
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L&T’s Pakal Dul Project TBM Passes Factory Tests

Herrenknecht AG this month completed factory acceptance tests (FAT) on Larsen…

31 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Other ⋅ 2 Comments
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Max Infra Wins Raipur – Vizag Expressway’s Package OD-8

Max Infra (India) Ltd. on Saturday emerged as the lowest bidder to construct…

31 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 17 Comments
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DBL Casts Bhopal Metro Package 1’s Final Segment

Dilip Buildcon Ltd. today cast the final of 1851 precast segments for the viaduct…

29 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bhopal Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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DRA Wins Raipur – Vizag Expressway’s Package OD-7

Dineshchandra R Agrawal Infracon Pvt. Ltd today emerged as the lowest bidder to construct package OD7 of the 464 km Raipur – Visakhapatnam Economic…

29 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 8 Comments
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Patel Casts Surat Metro Phase 1’s First Segment

Engineers from Patel Infrastructure on Thursday began pouring concrete to cast segments for Surat Metro Phase 1 project’s 11.6 km Kadarsha Ni Nal…

29 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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SNC Casts Bangalore Metro ORR Line Package 2’s 1st Pier

Shankaranarayana Constructions (SNC) this week cast their first pier in Doddanekundi to construct Bangalore Metro’s 56 km Blue Line on the Outer Ring…

29 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 16 Comments
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Bids Invited for Surat Metro Line-2’s Construction Work

Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation Limited (GMRC) on Friday launched the tendering process for the civil construction of Surat Metro’s 18.74 km Line-2…

29 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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8 Bidders for Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor’s C-1 Priority Section

April 22, 2022 Update: KCC Buildcon is lowest bidder – see details. January 28, 2022 Original Post: 8 construction firms have bid for the 5.9 km…

28 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor ⋅ 7 Comments
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Bangalore Metro’s TBM Varada Restarts Tunneling to Langford Town

Tunnel Boring Machine S-1264 operated by Afcons Infrastructure on Thursday was recommissioned at Rashtriya Military School Station for building the down-line…

28 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore 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 – 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 – 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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