TBM S-1259 Starts Tunneling for Bangalore Metro’s Pink Line

Afcons Infrastructure on Friday commissioned their second tunnel boring machine,…

24 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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Bids Reinvited for Mumbai Metro Line-2B’s MTNL-Chembur Section

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) this evening invited…

22 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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Mumbai Metro’s TBM Surya-2 Records Breakthrough at CSMT

Moments ago, Tunnel Boring Machine Surya-2 operated by Larsen & Toubro –…

22 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 13 Comments
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Bids Invited for Nepal Border – Haldia Port Expressway’s DPR

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) this week invited tenders to prepare…

22 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 7 Comments
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Bids Invited for Hyderabad Regional Ring Road’s DPR Work

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) earlier this month invited tenders…

21 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 7 Comments
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Afcons Launches Kanpur Metro’s 400th U-Girder

Afcons Infrastructure on Saturday night celebrated the launch of their 400th…

21 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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Delhi Metro’s Trilokpuri Section Nears Completion

Delhi Metro Pink Line’s long pending 288.38m missing viaduct in Trilokpuri…

21 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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Evrascon & Ceigall Win Delhi-Amritsar Expressway’s Work

Evrascon-MKCIL and Ceigall India have emerged as the lowest bidders for constructing…

20 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 39 Comments
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Central Govt. Approves Bangalore Metro’s Phase 2A & 2B

The Union Government’s cabinet today approved construction of Bangalore Metro’s 57 km Blue Line (Phase 2A and Phase 2B) linking Central Silk…

20 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 30 Comments
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Alstom Wins Mumbai Metro Line-4’s Signaling & PSD Contract

Alstom Transport today emerged as the lowest bidder for supplying the signalling, train control and platform screen door system to Mumbai Metro’s 32.32…

19 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 16 Comments
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1st Span Completed for Ahmedabad Metro’s Sabarmati Bridge

The first 41 meter long span of Ahmedabad Metro Phase 1 project’s 298.20m Sabarmati Bridge, which lies partially over the river’s water channel,…

18 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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Sam India Casts Agra Metro’s 1st Pier Cap

Workers from Sam India Builtwell on Saturday celebrated lifting out the first pier cap cast for Agra Metro Line-1’s 4 km Taj East Gate – Taj Mahal…

18 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro ⋅ 13 Comments
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2 Bidders for Patna Metro’s Turnouts & Crossovers

March 11, 2022 Update: DMRC has cancelled the tender as its validity expired and both bidders didn’t consent to its extension April 16, 2021 Original…

16 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Patna Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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RBL Begins Casting Ahmedabad Metro Phase 2’s 1st Pier

Workers from Ranjit Buildcon Ltd. today started pouring concrete to cast the 1st ever pier for Ahmedabad Metro’s 28.254 km Phase 2 project on Radesan…

15 Apr 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 58.68 km
• Delhi: 24 December 2002 – 351.2 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 72.2 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 46.5 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 – 37.9 km
• Nagpur: 8 March 2019 – 38.2 km
• Kanpur – 29 December 2021 – 8.7 km
• Pune: 6 March 2022 – 29.7 km
• Navi Mumbai: 17 November 2023 – 11.1 km
• Agra: March 6 2024 – 5.2 km

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