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…

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…

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…

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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5 Bidders for Delhi Metro Phase 4’s 288 Coach Contract

5 train manufacturers have submitted bids to supply 288 coaches (48 trains) for Delhi Metro Phase 4’s Package RS17 after Delhi Metro Rail Corporation…

01 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 34 Comments
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7 Bidders for Raipur – Vizag Expressway’s Package CG-2

7 construction firms have submitted bids to construct 56.7 km package CG2 of the 464 km Raipur – Visakhapatnam Economic Corridor (NH-130CD…

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 acceptance tests (FAT) on the only new TBM for Surat Metro’s Phase 1 project’s…

01 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 9 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 – 353.3 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 75.2 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 68.5 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 – 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
• Indore: May 31 2025 – 5.8 km

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