Nagpur Metro Reach 4’s Track-Work Nears Completion

Ballastless track-work on Nagpur Metro’s 8.15 km Reach-4 of the 19.4 km…

27 Feb 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Alstom Begins Production of Kanpur Metro’s 1st Train

Alstom Transport today formally launched manufacturing 39 3-coach train-sets…

26 Feb 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro, Kanpur Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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Bids Invited for Chennai Metro Phase 2’s Madhavaram Depot

Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) today invited tenders (bids) for the construction…

26 Feb 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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Bids Invited for Kochi Metro Phase 2 Pink Line’s PMC

Kochi Metro Rail Ltd. (KMRL) today invited tenders (bids) to appoint a Project…

26 Feb 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kochi Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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Testing Begins on Mumbai Metro Line-2A’s Train at Charkop Depot

BEML on Wednesday started dynamic testing on the first prototype train-set for…

25 Feb 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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L&T Wins 4.37 KM Bhagalpur Ganga Bridge Project

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) last Friday emerged as the lowest bidder for constructing…

25 Feb 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bridges ⋅ 26 Comments
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MahaMetro Takes Over Navi Mumbai Metro’s Pending Work

After a joint site visit to different facilities, City and Industrial Development…

25 Feb 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Navi Mumbai Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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Dilip Buildcon Wins Bangalore – Chennai Expressway’s Packages 1 & 2

March 5 Update: Dilip Buildcon has been issued LOAs for both packages February…

24 Feb 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 23 Comments
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15 Bidders for Delhi Metro Phase 4’s Packages DC-10B-R & DC-11

15 firms have submitted a total of 24 bids to perform architectural finishing works and install prefabricated steel roof structures at 16 new elevated…

24 Feb 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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VNC-KEC Begins Work on Delhi-Meerut RRTS’ Duhai Depot

Besides Afcons starting work on the 82.15 km Delhi – Meerut RRTS line’s 1.35 km Yamuna Bridge, another construction milestone was recorded in January….

24 Feb 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 9 Comments
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12 Bidders for Delhi Metro Phase 4’s Package DC-10A-R

Twelve firms have submitted bids to perform architectural finishing works and install prefabricated steel roof structures at 7 new elevated stations on…

23 Feb 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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1st Pier of Mumbai Metro Line-6’s Double Decker Ready

J Kumar Infraprojects – CRTG JV’s first pier for a 2.58 km double decker structure on Mumbai Metro’s 15.18 km Line-6 (Pink Line)…

23 Feb 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 21 Comments
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Aarvee-GSL Wins Chennai-Mysuru HSR’s LiDAR & Alignment Design

Aarvee Associates – GSL Associates JV on Friday emerged as the lowest bidder to prepare the final alignment design through an aerial LiDAR survey…

22 Feb 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 28 Comments
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Ranjit Begins Piling for Ahmedabad Metro’s Phase 2

Workers from Ranjit Buildcon today started piling work on Radesan Road – the first step of construction – for building Ahmedabad Metro’s…

22 Feb 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 9 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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