Sam Completes Agra Metro’s Piling & T-Girder Erection

Sam India Builtwell in the past week recorded two important milestones for Agra…

26 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Bids Invited for Bangalore Metro Challaghatta Depot’s Work

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) last week invited tender for the…

26 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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HCC-KEC Casts Chennai Metro Line-4’s 1st U-Girder

HCC – KEC JV (Hindustan Construction Company Ltd. – KEC International Consortium)…

26 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 17 Comments
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Afcons Awarded Delhi Metro Magenta Line’s DC-05 Contract

Another one down! Afcons Infrastructure on Friday was awarded a Rs. 2481.50…

18 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 25 Comments
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5 Bidders for Agra Metro’s Electrification Contract AGE-1 & 2

5 firms (2 in a consortia) have submitted bids for the 750 V DC Third Rail electrification…

18 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Terratec TBM S80 Makes Breakthrough for Mumbai Sewage Project

After the water tunneling project I covered the other day, here’s another…

18 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Other, Tunnels ⋅ 0 Comments
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Afcons Awarded Delhi Metro Silver Line’s DC-07 Contract

Afcons Infrastructure on Thursday was awarded a Rs. 1669.20 crore contract by…

17 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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6 Bidders for Delhi Amritsar Expressway Spur-1’s Work

6 construction firms have submitted bids to construct Package Spur-I of the…

14 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 4 Comments
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Pune Metro’s TBM S81 Records Breakthrough at Budhwar Peth

Tunnel Boring Machine S81 operated by Gulermak – Tata Projects Ltd. JV today arrived at Budhwar Peth Station on Pune Metro’s 16.589 km Purple…

14 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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ITD Cem Awarded Chennai Metro Line-4’s Underground Contracts

Chennai Metro Rail Ltd. (CMRL) on Wednesday awarded ITD Cementation India Ltd. with two underground construction contracts for 26.1 km Line-4’s 10 km…

13 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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Terratec TBM T87 in Mumbai Tunnels 526m in December

Feb 1, 2022 Update: In January 2022, Patel Infra’s TBM T83 excavated 653 meters beating Soma TBM T87’s December 2021 progress – see details…

13 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Other, Tunnels ⋅ 17 Comments
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24 Bidders for Agra Bypass: NH-2 to Yamuna Expressway Link

24 construction firms have submitted bids to build the 17.728 km Agra Bypass (Northern) project which will link NH-19 (old NH-2) and Yamuna Expressway…

12 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 8 Comments
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L&T’s TBM Mavala Records Breakthrough for Mumbai Coastal Road

Mavala, the largest tunnel boring machine to ever be deployed in India, today made its first breakthrough at Girgaum’s Chowpatty for Mumbai’s 29.2…

10 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways, Tunnels ⋅ 7 Comments
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Agra Metro’s PAC Depot Takes Shape & Tracks Arrive

With station & viaduct works on Agra Metro Line-1’s 8 km Priority Corridor grabbing all eyeballs, here’s a post on the project’s crucial…

08 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 16 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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