Government Panel Proposes 3 New Corridors for Bengaluru Metro

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25/09/2023

BANGALORE (Metro Rail News): A panel comprising members from FICCI as well as the state government of Karnataka has proposed three new corridors in the Bengaluru Metro, namely:

Old Airport Road: MG Road to Hope Farm
Old Madras Road: KR Puram to Hoskote
Inner Ring Road loop (Yeshwantpur, Cantonment, Indiranagar, Koramangala, Ashoka Pillar and Mahalakshmi Layout).

It aims to provide metro connectivity & accessibility to all the people residing in Bangalore by a fixed time.

The proposal also includes increased connectivity of the railway networks in the nearby cities & locations of Bangalore. The total extension of the railway line adds up to 452 Kms for cities nearby Bangalore.

Bangalore Metro, also called Namma Metro, has two lines with 51 stations. It’s an urban Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS).

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Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Update: Longest Indigenously-built Girder Assembled in Maharastra

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Longest Indigenously-built Girder Assembled in Maharastra for Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train (P.C: Hafiz Ali Kozithodi)

MUMBAI (Metro Rail News): A 130-m long, India’s longest indigenously-built, open web girder completes its trial installation at the Zetwerk’s facility in Narayanapur, just south of Wardha in Maharastra.

Zetwerk is the subcontracting company of L&-IHI Infrastructure Systems that has built the 130-m Long gorder for the MAHSR Project. The girder stands 21 metres tall & 13 meters wide. It is the longest girder to be fabricated in India, with a dedicated team of 250 people.

NHSRCL has awarded L&T-IHI Infrastructure Systems the MAHSR Bullet Trian Project Package P4X & Y. The contract includes transporting 28 steel Truss amounting to an estimated 70865 MT of Steel.

L&T-IHI Infrastructure Systems subcontracted Zetwerk for 10,000 MT of fabricated Girders with a contract value of 126.5 crore. The exact launch location of the girder remains unknown.

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Sandeep Srivastava Appointed as the Director, Rolling Stock of NHSRCL

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23/09/2023

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Sandeep Srivastava Appointed as the Director, Rolling Stock of NHSRCL

NEW DELHI (Metro Rail News): Shri Sandeep Srivastava has been appointed as the Director of Rolling Stock NHSRCL on 22 September 2023. He has been in NHsRCL since September 2017 on deputation from Indian Railways.

He had begun his journey as Assistant Electrical Engineer at Indian Railways in May 1995. Gradually, he climbed the stairs and became Executive Director and Director of Indian Railways in March 2014.

Later, he joined NHSRCL as Executive Director in September 2017 on deputation from the Railway Ministry, India. His educational qualifications include:

BSc Engg, Electrical from Dayalbagh Educational Institute
M.Tech from IIT, Roorkee0

He has 11 years of experience in the maintenance of traction rolling stock in Indian Railways. He has also worked in the field of New Electric Locomotives for Indian Railways with a focus on Propulsion Systems at RDSO.

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Mumbai Metro Update: Rahee Emerges as the Lowest Bidder for Track Work on 11.38 Km-long Line 9

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23/09/2023

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Mumbai Metro with four coaches — Mumbai Metro Update: Rahee Emerges as the Lowest Bidder for Track Work on 11.38 Km-long Line 9 (Representational image)

MUMBAI (Metro Rail News): MMRDA has declared Rahee Infratech the lowest bidder in the 11.38 Km long metro Line 9 of the Mumbai metro running from Dahisar East to Mira Bhayandar.

The metro line has a total of 8 elevated stations. The elevated section is currently under construction by J Kumar Infraprojects, which includes several double-decker sections.

Package CA-167 involves the installation of standard gauge tracks at the northern leg of the city’s Red Line, which will eventually connect Mira Bhayandar-Dahisar East– Andheri East- CSIA Terminal 2 through 23 stations. MMRDA’s estimated budget for the package was officially listed at INR 88.28 crores + GST, while Rahee’s bid amounts to INR 77.85 Crore + GST.

Mumbai metro Line 9 is an extension of Line 7, 13.581 km long, with ten stations. It will boost the connectivity among the existing Western Express Highway, Western Railways, and Metro lines 2A & 7. It will reduce the current travel time by 50%-755 depending upon road conditions.

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Jaipur Metro Update: CM Ashok Gehlot lays the Foundation Stone for The Extension of the Pink Line

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23/09/2023

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CM Ashok Gehlot lays the Foundation Stone for The Extension of the Pink Line

JAIPUR (Metro Rail News): CM Ashok Gehlot unveiled the 2.85 Km-long extension of the existing Pink Line metro in Jaipur city that goes from Badi Chaupar to Transport Nagar at a total expenditure of 980 Crores.

It will significantly contribute to easing the public transportation in the city. The Chief Minister boarded the metro from Ramnagar to Badi Chaupar metro station to experience the convenience and connectivity. He also inaugurated an exhibition showcasing the growth & progress achieved by the Jaipur Metro.

Phase 1-C of the Jaipur Metro runs from Badi Chaupar to Transport Nagar, incorporating two stations at Ramganj Chaupar & Transport Nagar.

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Nagpur Metro Floats Tender for Elevated Metro Viaduct on Phase: II worth 260 Crores

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23/09/2023

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NAGPUR (Metro Rail News): NMRCL floats tender for the design & construction of a 5.3 Km long elevated viaduct on the Nagpur Metro Phase: II. The specifics of the tender are mentioned below:

Tender no: N2-010/C-04/2023
Name of work: Design and Construction of Elevated Metro Viaduct of Length 5.333 km between Ch: (-) 289.668 m to Ch: (-) 5622.577 m in Reach-4A of NMRP Phase-2
Bid Security (EMD): INR 1.30 Crores
Estimated Cost: INR 260 Crores (INR Two Hundred and Sixty Crores Only)
Completion Period: 30 (Thirty Months) from the date specified in the LOA.
Bid-submission start date: 14th September 2023.
Bid-submission End date: 1st November 2023.
Pre-Bid Meeting: 3rd October, 2023.
Opening of Tender: 1st November 2023 at 16:30 Hours

The 43.8 km Phase-II shall extend to Kanhan in the North, Butibori MIDC in the South, Transport Nagar (Kapsi) in the East and Hingna in the West. It comprises 1.2 km at-grade with two stations and 42.6 km elevated with 30 stations. It will boost the connectivity from the satellite cities like the Transport Hub at Kapsi, the Industrial areas of Hingna and Butibori and the Mining areas at Kanhan.

It is scheduled to be completed by 2026 at an estimated cost of INR 6,708 Crore, which will be funded by the government of India & the government of Maharashtra on a 50:50 ratio.

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Bangalore Metro Update: Driverless Metro Coaches to be Active on Yellow Line by Q1, 2024

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22/09/2023

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BANGALORE (Metro Rail News): Bengaluru’s first driverless metro is likely to arrive by October. It’s gonna be Bengaluru’s first experience with driverless metros running on the route. It aims to boost connectivity to areas that inhabit big companies like Infosys & Biocon, South Bengaluru.

The metros are being manufactured by the China Rolling Railway Stock Corporation (CRRSC) and not the usual BEML that supplies metro coaches to BMRCL. These would be 6-coach trains and only 12 coaches i.e., 2 trains will be arriving from China while the rest 204 Coaches will be manufactured by Titagarh Rail in India, only.

These driverless coaches will be introduced as a part of the Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) System, commonly known as “Driverless Technology”. It will also reduce the headway to 90 seconds from the existing two & a half minutes. Although it’s going to be driverless trains, the BMRCL has decided to deploy Loco Pilots to allay passengers.

While it was to be made operational by 2021, the deadline was extended many times. The yellow line will go to stations like Bommamanahalli, BTM Layout, HSR Layout, Jayadeva Hospital, etc.

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This news was published on Moneycontrol.

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Bengaluru Metro Update: CMRS Conducts Safety Inspection of KR Puram to Baiyappanahalli Metro line

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22/09/2023

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CMRS Conducts Safety Inspection of KR Puram to Baiyappanahalli Metro line P.C: Rahul Varshney

BANGALORE (Metro Rail News): CMRS conducted the safety inspection of the 2.1 km KR Puram-Baiyappanhali metro line successfully on Thursday. The clearance will be received in a few weeks but with certain conditions.

WhatsApp Image 2023 09 22 at 11.20.15 edited — P.C: Rahul Varshney

A team from CMRS has conducted the safety inspection, including the inspection of metro tracks, signalling, viaducts, girders, etc. But there is also a buzz regarding the phased opening of the line as the Kengri-Challaghatta line is yet to be inspected. Moreover, dates have yet to be finalised for the same even now.

Once both the sections, namely, KR Pura-Baiyappanhali & Kengri-Challaghatta, are opened, the 44Km-long Purple Line will become fully operational, providing easy & efficient commutation between Whitefield & Challaghatta.

WhatsApp Image 2023 09 22 at 11.20.15 1 — P.C: Rahul Varshney

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PM Modi to Inaugurate Nine New Vande Bharat Express Trains This Sunday

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21/09/2023

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Orange-white variant of the Vande Bharat Trains

DELHI (Metro Rail News): PM Modi will be inaugurating 9 new Vande Bharat trains virtually this Sunday, September 24th. The 9 routes are:

Indore-Jaipur
Jaipur-Udaipur
Puri-Rourkela
Patna-Howrah
Jaipur-Chandigarh
Chennai-Tirunelveli
Ranchi-Howrah
Jamnagar-Ahmedabad
Chennai-Hyderabad

Additionally, the new fleet of Vande Bharat Express trains that is to be inaugurated is equipped with many new features that make them different or distinct from the already existing fleet of Vnade Bharat Express Trains. Extended footrests, Deeper wash basins, and improved lighting are a few of the new features.

While 8 of the Vande Bharat trains will be the same as the White-Blue Variant, One out of the lot will be the Saffron-White variant, probably the one along the Kasargod-Trivandrum route. Among the 9 trains being inaugurated, will be the 2nd Vande Bharat for Bihar which will run between Patna & Howrah, bringing down the travel time to 6 hours 30 minutes at a speed of 90 km/hr.

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Good News! Survey Begins for High-Speed Rail Corridor Between Delhi and Amritsar

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21/09/2023

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CHANDIGARH (Metro Rail News): The Indian Railways has begun with the Land Survey for the upcoming high-speed rail project between Delhi & Amritsar on Monday. The survey has been initiated in the Dadiana Village of Punjab.

The socio-economic survey is also being conducted alongside the same, to begin with the land acquisition in the further stages. IIM-Research, New Delhi, has been given the survey Project. The Survey project is being led by teams carved out of IIM-Research who continuously engage with the people on-ground in Fatehgarh Sahib & Mohali districts.

The survey aims to check if the land in the spectrum of acquisition is a primary source of livelihood for its owners. The primary focus of the survey is on agricultural lands.

The railway corridor will have a dedicated 55-foot-wide railway track for bullet trains running at a 320 Km/hr speed to reduce the travel time between Delhi & Amritsar from 5 hours to 2 hours.

It is proposed to originate from Dwarka in Delhi & make stops at Sonepat, Panipat, Kurukshetra, Jalandhar & Amritsar. It is a part of the more significant idea of a High-Speed Rail Network connecting major cities, including Mumbai, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Chennai & Kolkata.

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