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Egis – Louis Berger – AECOM JV on February 2 emerged as the preferred bidder for the General Consultant (GC) contract of the 149.348 km Bengaluru Suburban Rail project

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3 firms on Friday submitted bids for the Detailed Design Consultant (DDC) contract of the 32.385 km Kanpur Metro and 29.40 km Agra Metro Phase 1 projects’ second corridors.

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Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) last week invited tenders for the construction of Ahmedabad Metro Phase 2 project’s 7.553 km Sector-1 – Mahatma Mandir section in Gandhinagar.

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The railway ministry on Friday approved train coaches and electrical systems for the Navi Mumbai Metro. This approval is significant and now approval remains only for the civil part of the project. Navi Mumbai metro is "now in the very last lap"

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All future operational road projects will be offered for bids by InvITs for road monetization. About ₹2,000 crore– ₹2,500 crore worth of operational highways laid by the NHAI would be put for bidding exclusively by InvITs next month.

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Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL) on late Sunday night launched train trial runs (testing) on Phase 1A project’s 1.78 km section between Petta – Vadakkekotta – S.N. Junction.

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Afcons Infrastructure – Sam India JV emerged as the lowest bidder to construct Agra Metro Phase 1’s underground section (AGCC02) between RBS College Ramp and Taj Mahal Ramp.

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Afcons Infrastructure – SAM India JV today emerged as the lowest bidder to construct Kanpur Metro Phase 1’s second underground section (KNPCC-06) between Nayaganj Station and Transport Nagar Ramp after UPMRC opened financial bids.

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NCC Ltd. this Sunday bored & concreted the first pile to officially mark the start of construction work on Bangalore Metro’s 37 km Airport Line (Blue Line) which will link Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) to KR Puram.

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NHAI is in talks with the housing and urban affairs ministry to offer land it holds along national highways connecting major tourist spots and religious sites to develop hotels, warehousing centres and affordable housing projects.

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The Jal Jeevan Mission has achieved the milestone of providing tap water connection to over 5.77 crore rural households in the country in a short span of two and half years since its inception.

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The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has proposed a 72km high-speed corridor between the upcoming Noida airport in Jewar and Delhi’s IGI airport.

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Suburban rail will run below Namma Metro viaduct for a length of 500m adjacent to Benniganahalli flyover. While KR Puram - KIA airport Metro corridor’s rail level height will be above ground, suburban rail will be around 12m above ground

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The stretch between Central Silk Board & Bommasandra (nearly 15 km) of the Reach-5 line is in an advanced stage of completion & is planned to be commission by Dec 2022. Stretch between R V Road & Central Silk Board will be in place by Mar 2023.

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GAIL India Ltd plans to lay a pipeline to Srinagar to take natural gas to the Kashmir Valley as it doubles down on efforts to expand infrastructure to helm the government vision of a gas-based economy

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GAIL is also laying a 1,405 km pipeline from Mumbai to Jharsuguda (Odisha) via Nagpur and Raipur in Chhattisgarh. GAIL will by May 2023 complete the 700-km pipeline section from Mumbai to Nagpur, enabling the flow of gas to central India

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GAIL is on track to meeting the target of mid-2022 for completing major portions of the ambitious Urja Ganga project, bringing eastern India on the energy map.

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Pipeline projects at hand include the ambitious 2,655-km gas pipeline from Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh to Haldia in West Bengal, Bokaro in Jharkhand and Dhamra in Odisha (Jagdishpur-Haldia & Bokaro-Dhamra Natural Gas Pipeline also known as the 'Urja Ganga' project)
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Kochi-Kootanad-Bangalore-Mangalore line; and Indradhanush North East Gas Grid. The pipeline will be extended to Guwahati by laying an additional 729-km line from Barauni in Bihar. GAIL will also lay a 750 km Srikakulam-Angul natural gas pipeline.

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Investments are also planned for the expansion of Pata petrochemical plant in Uttar Pradesh as well as converting a LPG recovery unit at Usar in Maharashtra into 5,00,000 tonnes Polypropylene plant.

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GAIL is looking to put up 400 CNG stations and give out a record 10 lakh piped natural gas (PNG) connections to household kitchens in the next 3-5 years.

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The Union Minister for Ports, Shipping & Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal flagged off the maiden voyage of steel cargo laden barge from Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Kolkata to Pandu port in Guwahati on Wednesday

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After unloading the consignment at Pandu, the barges will return with industrial coal cargo for discharge at Kolkata Dock System (KDS)

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The MoU will help set up a streamlined logistic chain for movement of feed stock like Naphtha, Propane, Pentane etc. from Haldia Dock Complex (HDC) for Lepetkata in Dibrugarh.

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On its return leg, the finished products and by-products are to be routed for distribution through the Port for consumption of both domestic and international market.

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Oil India Limited and Assam Gas Company Limited consortium has received letter of intent for grant of authorization for development of City Gas Distribution in three geographical areas - two in the state of Tripura and one in north bank of Assam

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Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated and laid foundation stone of 51 National Highway projects of total length 1,380 Km with an investment of Rs 21,559 Crore in Andhra Pradesh's Vijayawada.

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As part of the PM Gati Shakti NMP, MoRTH plans to develop a total of 22 Greenfield Expressways, 23 other major infrastructure projects and other highway projects and also 35 Multi-Modal Logistics Parks.

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Union road ministry has identified 28 locations on key & strategic operational national highways to build landing strips for aircraft. Out of these 28 locations, civil works are complete for 1 location & civil work is in progress for 4 locations

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The 17 km priority section of Delhi-Ghaziabad Meerut RRTS corridor between Sahibabad to Duhai is scheduled to be operational by March 2023. The complete corridor will be opened for traffic by 2025.

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17 construction firms have submitted a total of 32 bids to construct packages 2 & 3 of the Solapur – Kurnool – Chennai Economic Corridor (NH-150C), which forms the southern section of what’s known as Surat – Chennai Expressway.

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71 km Package 2 will connect Maharashtra-Karnataka’s border at Badadal to Maradgi S. Andola in Karnataka, while 65.5 km Package 3 will connect Maradgi S. Andola to Baswantpur.

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Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday said the routes and timetable of Vande Bharat train services will be finalised soon as new rakes are expected to arrive from August-September.

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Karnataka Cabinet gave a go-ahead for the construction of a ropeway at Nandi Hills under a PPP model. The move is set to provide a further boost to tourism at Nandi Hills, among the preferred weekend getaways for residents of Bengaluru.

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The Centre has granted Rs. 1,000 crore for the 87.2-km Mysuru-Belagola-Kushalnagar Railway line that is expected to cost Rs. 1,854.62 crore. 

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India is set to unveil an ambitious ₹1 trillion programme to build 5,795km of national highways in 117 aspirational districts. Road ministry identified 221 projects for expansion, in addition to the 5,566km of highways already being built.

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Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd., India’s largest 4G mobile broadband and digital service provider, will land the next generation multi-terabit India-Asia-Xpress (IAX) undersea cable system in Hulhumale, Maldives.

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Dilip Buildcon emerged as the lowest bidder to construct 56.7 km package CG-2 of the 464 km Raipur – Visakhapatnam Economic Corridor. CG-2 is the 2nd of 3 packages within Chhattisgarh, and will connect Sargi – Basanwahi

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The government has sanctioned four road infrastructure projects worth Rs 4,518.04 crore, including two highways under the Bharatmala project.

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The four-laning of NH-71 from Madanapalle to Pileru in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh under Bharatmala Pariyojna has been sanctioned with a budget of Rs 1,852.12 crore.

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Construction of a 6-lane, access-controlled greenfield highway section of NH-150C between Karnataka and Telangana at an estimated cost of Rs 972.06 crore.

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The government also sanctioned two national highway projects worth Rs 1,694 crore in Assam, which includes four-lane construction and upgradation of NH-127B at an estimated cost of Rs 1,522.91 crore.

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In a big boost for industrial growth in Mysuru, the Government has come forward to set up a mega Industrial Zone in the outskirts of the city.

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The Delhi Vadodara section of the 1,380-km-long Delhi Mumbai Expressway is likely to be ready by December and the first section of the greenfield road will open between Vadodara and Ankleshwar in April this year.

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After installing radio-frequency identification tags (RFID) in wagons, Indian Railways will now opt for global positioning system (GPS) at an estimated cost of Rs 600 crore for the entire fleet of wagons to track it in real time.

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Plans are underway to reduce the travel time between Mumbai and Pune by connecting the under-construction Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) Road with the Mumbai-Pune Expressway.

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PNC Infratech Ltd. today emerged as the lowest bidder to construct both packages of the 62.7 km Kanpur – Lucknow Expressway (NE-6) project after the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) opened financial bids.

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Filed RTI application regarding 4 laning of Tumkuru Shimoga road.

Package's status
I - 53 kms, Completed 64%, Land Acquisition 99%, Target Date Apr-22
II - 57 kms, C 64%, LA 99%, TD Apr-22
III - 49 kms, C: 26%, LA 97%, TD Mar-23
IV - 56 kms, C: 2%, LA 71%, TD Oct-23

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Civil and road works are expected to be completed till Maddur by May. The representatives of NHAI said that work till Mysuru will be completed before Dasara, and the access-controlled highway will be opened to traffic by September.

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The 91.35 km long Gorakhpur Link Expressway in Uttar Pradesh has reached overall progress of 34%, and the remaining construction is going on at a fast pace.

Earthwork in the main carriageway has reached 55% of completion level.

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STEC on Thursday commissioned Sudarshan 4.1 – the 1st of seven tunnel boring machines to construct the 82.15 km Delhi – Meerut RRTS project’s twin tunnels.

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16 firms have submitted bids to construct 20.9 km Phase 3 Package 2 of the 280.8 km Bangalore Satellite Town Ring Road (NH-948A) after National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) opened technical bids.

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Fastening the speed of building a semi high-speed railway line between Pune and Nashik, the Maharashtra Railway Infrastructure Development Corporation has invited an expression of interest from companies to build railway stations for the project.

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The next phase of Bharatmala-II, under which nearly 8,500km of NHs will be built at an investment of Rs 3.5 lakh, will mostly be building ‘greenfield corridors. Some of the stretches include Pune-Bengaluru, Varanasi-Kolkata, Hyderabad-Bengaluru.

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Focusing on Vande Bharat, Indian Railways is firming up plans to float a massive tender worth Rs 24,000 crore for manufacturing of 200 such trains with sleeper facilities for overnight journey in March.

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Indian Railways plans to manufacture 8,429 train coaches and rakes in 2022-23, including including 75 Vande Bharat Express trains, 220 Tejas & 70 Vistadome coaches, according to the Railways's revised coach production programme for FY23.

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To boost the connectivity to the new Central Secretariat buildings, which are under construction as part of the Central Vista Area Redevelopment project, the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) plans to build a three km Metro loop corridor.

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Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated and laid foundation stone of 46 National Highway Projects with investment of Rs 19,930 crore in Karnataka.

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Bangalore Metro Phase 2 project’s crucial Kadugodi Depot is finally taking shape with visible site development works for the depot’s structures.

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5 construction firms have submitted bids to construct Bangalore Metro Purple Line’s Challaghatta Depot & Workshop.

This depot of the 73.92 km Bangalore Metro Phase 2 project will be built on a portion of a 40 acre land parcel abutting Mysore Road

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13 construction firms have submitted bid to construct 40.6 km Package 4 of the Solapur – Kurnool – Chennai Economic Corridor. Karnataka section’s Package 4 will connect Baswantpur and Singnodi on the border with Telangana.

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Tenders for deployment of Kavach across the entire 68,446 RKM will be issued in two years. The project will be completed in the next five years.

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Three firms have submitted bids to construct the first 8.027 km elevated viaduct of the 23.866 km Corridor 2 (Baiyyappanahalli – Chikkabanavara) will connect Benniganahalli and Chikkabanavara. 

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lans are afoot to develop the inland water transport at Khawthilangtuipui (Karnaphuli)-Tuichawng River stretching upto 23 kms. The total cost of this project Rs 22.93 crores.

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Hydrographical Survey & Techno Economic Feasibility study conducted covering a stretch of 87.136 kms between River Tiawng at Khamrang village in Mizoram to Gharmura in Assam.

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A detailed report to develop IWT at River Chhimtuipui was submitted. It has now been decided to conduct Detail Hydrographic Survey and Techno Economic Feasibility Survey on this river from Tupui D to Lomasu stretching upto 138.26 kms.

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Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd. is the only bidder for constructing 47 km Package 3 of the 230 km Amas – Darbhanga Expressway (NH-119D) 

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'Kavach', the indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system, will be deployed across the entire rail network beginning with 2,000 km in the 2022-23 fiscal and will be rolled out in 4,000 to 5,000 km every subsequent year,

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The work of tunneling has been commenced at Anand Vihar for underground construction of the country’s first regional rail corridor being implemented from Delhi to Ghaziabad and Meerut. 

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The DPR for Phase-3 will be submitted to the Central government for its approval, the CM said. This 45-km project to cost Rs 11,250 crore will cover 32 kms on Outer Ring Road from Hebbal to JP Nagar and 13 km between Hosahalli and Kadabagere.

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Rs 309 crore has been allocated for the development of basic infrastructure facilities, hotels and ambitious ropeways in three sites - Jog Falls in Shivamogga district, Nandi Hills in Chikkaballapur and Anjanadri hill, which is known as the birthplace of Lord Anjaneya

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Two popular tourism circuits in the state - Hampi–Badami–Aihole-Pattadakallu-Vijayapura and Mysuru-Srirangapattana–Hassan–Beluru-Halebidu - are announced to be developed under PPP models for the promotion of tourism.

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Karnataka State Budget

1. Rs 1,000 crore allocated for Mekedatu project
Rs 300 crore for roads damaged during rainy season
2. 1,000 lakes to be developed at a cost of Rs 10 lakh per lake
3. Rs 440 crore for the re-asphalting of 1,008 state highways

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4. Rs 1,500 crore for micro-projects
5. Rs 80 crore for development of automatic driving testing tracks at at Devanahalli, Kolar, Hospet, Gadag, Ballari, Vijayapura, Bhalki, Yadgir, and Davanagere
6. Mega Jewellery Park to be established in Bengaluru to create 10,000 jobs

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7. Rs 186 crore from District Mineral Fund for the Greenfield Airport at Raichur
8. Rs 30 crore for heliports at Madikeri, Chikkamagalur, and Hampi
9. Proposal for airports at Dharwad and Koppal; extend the runway at Mysuru Airport

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10. Rs 11,250 crore for Phase-3 of Bengaluru Metro
11. Rs 45 crore for Sky Walk at Banashankari junction to connect the metro station with the bus stand

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12. Rs 55 crore for connecting metro stations with railway stations at Whitefield, KR Puram, Baiyappanhalli, Yeshwanthpura and Yelahanka
13. Rs 15,267 crore for four corridors of Sub-Urban railway project for a length of 148-km to be completed by 2026

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14. Rs 404 crore for infrastructure works at Sir M Visveshwaraiah, Banashankari 6th stage and Anjanapura layouts
15. Rs 1,500 crore for development of mega storm water drains in Bengaluru

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The Railways is mapping the mining districts across the country to connect them with the rail network in a bid to bite into a bigger slice of the freight transportation pie.

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Government is planning to strengthen the rail infrastructure and has stressed on commissioning 14 critical coal-evacuation rail projects for faster transportation of fuel.

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Hubballi-Ankola railway project to commence this year: CM Bommai

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Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd. today emerged as the lowest bidder to construct Packages 1 & 2 of the 230 km Amas – Darbhanga Expressway (NH-119D) after the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) opened financial bids.

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The Greenfield Airport at Hollongi near state capital Itanagar, the first full-fledged airport of Arunachal Pradesh, is set to get operationalized on Independence Day this year, well ahead of its November 2022 date of completion.

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A seven-member technical team of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) Tuesday undertook an on-the spot verification of Sipasarubali area in the outskirt of the pilgrim town, for the proposed international airport in Puri.

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Himachal’s first-ever multipurpose rainwater harvesting dam has been constructed by the jal shakti vibhag at Samoor Khad near Samoor village in Una district.

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Built at a cost of ₹16.38 crore, the dam can store the rainwater in a massive reservoir collected from the catchment area of 10 sq km and will ensure water supply to a population of 5,580 living in water-deficient areas during dry seasons.

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The Centre has cleared the 407-m long skywalk connecting Hurricane Point and Goreghat Point at Chikhaldara in Maharashtra which is the only hill station in the Vidarbha region that offers an abundance of wildlife, viewpoints, lakes & waterfalls.

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Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday said that the Centre would build AYUSH facilities, including an Ayurveda college, in Nagaland at Rs 100 crore.

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MMRDA has decided to extend the Mumbai Monorail corridor and connect it with Colaba-Seepz underground Metro 3 line to enhance the connectivity to Mahalaxmi-Parel-Wadala areas.

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MRIDC has started the process to construct 20 railway stations on the 235.15-km broad-gauge rail on Pune-Nashik semi-high speed rail line.

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Admitting that there was delay in developing Shiradi Ghat [Bengaluru-Mangaluru NH 75], Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said the highway will be made six-lane along with the proposed tunnel bypass for the ghat section in near future.

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Besides developing 26 km of Shiradi Ghat stretch into four-lane road, the Ministry was working hard to prepare a detailed project report for the tunnel bypass estimated to cost ₹14,000 crore.

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Mr. Gadkari on the spot cleared Mr. Kateel’s demand for construction of a flyover at Nanthoor Circle on NH 66 in the city and construction of bypass for NH 66 and NH 75 — Mulki-Kateel-B.C. Road-Melkar-Mudipu-Thokkottu.

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Expediting the new-age train delivery, Indian Railways has awarded the Rs 2,600 crore contract to seven players including Medha, Bombardier and Siemens for manufacturing 58 Vande Bharat trains.

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Work on the Bengaluru suburban rail project’s corridor-2 (Baiyyappanahalli-Chikkabanavara) will begin by March 31

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Balaji Railroad Systems on Wednesday emerged as the lowest bidder to prepare a Feasibility Study Report for introducing a mass rapid transit system (MRTS) in Madurai.

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L&T has dispatched the fourth steam generator for NPCIL indigenously designed 700 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors to be set up at Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojana in Haryana's Fatehabad district.

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‘Gati Shakti Multi-Modal Cargo Terminal’ (GCT), Asansol division of Indian Railways has successfully commissioned private siding of Maithan Power Limited at Thaparnagar. This is the FIRST such GCT commissioned since publication of GCT policy in Dec.’2021.

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Till now the requirement of coal to the power project was being made through road which is expected to convert into 120 inward coal rakes per month.

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Also 02 to 04 outward rakes of Fly Ash is projected to be handled from the siding. This will enhance Railways’ earnings by approximately Rs. 11 crores per month.

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On Wednesday, a total of 19 National Highway projects were inaugurated by the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari in the states of Haryana and Rajasthan. 

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6 firms have submitted bids to construct 35.766 km Phase 3 Package 1 of the 280.8 km Bangalore Satellite Town Ring Road (NH-948A) project.

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13 construction firms have submitted bids to construct the 67 km Bandikui – Jaipur spur of the 1350 km Delhi – Mumbai Expressway (DME) project.

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6 construction firms have submitted bids to construct 25.16 km package CG3 of the 464 km Raipur – Visakhapatnam Economic Corridor.
Package CG-3 will connect Basanwahi – Marangpuri from chainage km 99.500 to km 124.661.

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L&T emerged as the lowest bidder to construct the first 8.027 km elevated viaduct of the 149.348 km Bengaluru Suburban Rail project. The scope of this section of the 23.866 km Corridor 2 and will connect Benniganahalli and Chikkabanavara. 

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NHAI is set to garner a little over Rs 6,267 crore as upfront payment from monetisation of the 135-km-long eastern peripheral expressway (EPE) project in Delhi-NCR through the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) route.

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Almost eight years after the city got its first-ever 11.40 km elevated Metro line — one corridor connecting Ghatkopar-Andheri-Versova — two additional lines will be partially operational soon.

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The 296 Km long Bundelkhand Expressway in Uttar Pradesh has reached overall progress of 90.27 per cent, and the remaining construction is going on at a fast pace.

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NHAI has approved the construction of the second phase of the Pathankot-Mandi four-lane project between 32 Miles and Rajol in Kangra district.

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The 35-km line from Joynagar in Bihar to Kurtha in Nepal is going to be commissioned on 2 April with the operation of a five-coach DEMU train, the first broad gauge (BG) passenger service in the Himalayan country.

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With the first pour of concrete for a 700 MW atomic power plant in Karnataka's Kaiga scheduled in 2023, India is set to put in motion construction activities for 10 'fleet mode' nuclear reactors (700 MW each) over the next three years.

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NTPC has made commercially operational an additional 42.5 MW of power generation capacity at Ramagundam floating solar project in Telangana.

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Union highways minister 
Nitin Gadkari
 on Saturday said a new 699km-long national highway would connect Pune and Bengaluru and would pass through the drought-prone areas of Satara and Sangli districts.

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NCC Ltd. on Saturday poured concrete to cast the first pile cap of Bangalore Metro’s 37 km Airport Line (Blue Line) which will link Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) to KR Puram.

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Larsen & Toubro today emerged as the lowest bidder to design, manufacture and install tracks (Package T-3) of the 508.17 km Mumbai – Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR Bullet Train) project.

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RITES Ltd. and Segmental Consulting & Infrastructure Advisory Pvt. Ltd. are the 2 firms that have bid for preparing Saser La Tunnel’s Detailed Project Report (DPR).

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This strategic tunnel in Ladakh by the Border Roads Organization (BRO) will be at least 10 kms long and connect Sasoma with Murgo through the glaciated Saser La

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Rs 8,172 crore Bengaluru - Mysuru expressway, which is slated to reduce travel time between the major cities of Karnataka to 75 minutes from the current three hours, is set for completion by October 2022.

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Operational control centre and other advanced system of RRTS are being completed now with the construction work of the Administrative Building built at Duhai Depot in Ghaziabad for the operation of India's first Regional Rail.

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Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) will likely invite tenders for the 73-km Peripheral Ring Road (PRR) in a week’s time

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GR Infraprojects Ltd. today emerged as the lowest bidder to construct and operate the 67 km Bandikui – Jaipur spur of the 1350 km Delhi – Mumbai Expressway (DME) project.

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The final phase of the strategic Zojila tunnel project on Srinagar-Leh highway is likely to be completed in September 2025, a year before the deadline set. Defence personnel will be able to use the tunnel in raw form by September 2024.

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The work on the strategic Zojila Tunnel, which will provide all-weather connectivity between Ladakh region and the rest of the country, is nearing the halfway mark as the excavation for seven-km tunnel length has been completed.

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The Rs 16,000 crore planned second airport in India's financial capital Mumbai has achieved financial closure

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Afcons Infrastructure on Monday commissioned TBM Sudarshan 8.1 – their first tunnel boring machine for the 82.15 km Delhi – Meerut RRTS project‘s 5.68 km underground Package 8 at Bhaisali Station.

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The civil aviation landscape of Madhya Pradesh is set for a transformation in 2023 as the new terminal buildings of both Gwalior and Jabalpur airports are set to be complete by next year.

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In the next four years, Kolkata will boast of a 100km of Metro network. These include Phase 1 of the Joka-Esplanade and New Garia-Airport corridors. Also, East-West Metro's Sealdah extension will start by April this year.

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A private organisation has approached the Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority with a plea for land to set up international infrastructure for sports in Siliguri.

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Mumbai Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Tuesday cleared two projects worth over ₹1,186 crore, paving way for Metro-2B corridor and Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL).

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The National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP), which was launched with 6,835 projects, has been expanded to 9,335 projects with total envisaged investments of almost `108 trillion between FY20 and FY25

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The proposed Noapara-New Barrackpore Metro is finally seeing the light of the day, as Metro Railway initiates Phase 2 of Yellow Line, the 3.6km Noapara-New Barrackpore corridor via airport.

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The Mamata Banerjee government will create three dedicated industrial corridors in Bengal to reap the benefits of the Centre’s Amritsar-Dankuni freight corridor. — Dankuni-Haldia, Dankuni-Kalyani and Dankuni-Raghunathpur.

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Tripura is set to get its second airport at Kailashahar, about 139 KMs away from capital Agartala, the state's chief minister said in a statement.

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In a bid to encourage sports participation in the Himalayan region, a whopping Rs 506.13 crore is being invested in 77 infrastructure projects under the Khelo India Scheme.

#Infra
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The Ministry for Forest, Environment and Climate Change announced the “rejuvenation” of 13 major rivers. ICFRE plan looks at rejuvenating the rivers primarily by creating riparian forests, or planting trees along the river.

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All districts of Vidarbha will get natural gas easily fordomestic, industrial and vehicular usage as Gail Limited has started to lay a gas pipeline along Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Mahamarg

#Infra
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Union minister of state for Panchayati Raj performed the ground breaking ceremony for the proposed Rs 1,100-crore Logistic Park in Adgaon and the Rs 1,800-crore centrally funded Namami Goda’ project at Ramkund for cleaning the Godavari river.

#Infra
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SWR has achieved electrification of 511.7 route km by 28th March 2022. The Railway Board had set a target of 459 route km for the financial year 2021-22.

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Ashok Buildcon on Tuesday announced that it has been declared as L-1 bidder by the NHAI for greenfield highway project development of six lane access controlled greenfield highway from Baswantpur to Singondi of NH 150.

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Indian Railways plans to install Kavach across 2,000 rail route networks in 2022-23 and over 4,000-5,000 rail route networks every subsequent year. At the moment Kavach has been deployed on over 1,098 route km and 65 trains.

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Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd. emerged as the lowest bidder to construct the 39.3 km Package 1 of the Solapur-Kurnool-Chennai Economic Corridor (NH-150C), which forms the southern section of what’s known as Surat – Chennai Expressway.

#Infra
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Montecarlo Ltd. (MCL) on Tuesday emerged as the lowest bidder to construct 35.766 km Phase 3 Package 1 of the 280.8 km Bangalore Satellite Town Ring Road (NH-948A) project.

#Infra
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Dilip Buildcon Ltd (DBL) on Tuesday emerged as the lowest bidder to construct 65.5 km Package 3 of the Solapur – Kurnool – Chennai Economic Corridor (NH-150C), which forms the southern section of what’s known as Surat – Chennai Expressway.

#Infra
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KMV Projects on Tuesday emerged as the lowest bidder to construct 25.16 km package CG3 of the 464 km Raipur – Visakhapatnam Economic Corridor (NH-130CD & EC-15), also known as Raipur – Vizag Expressway.

#Infra
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ARTL has received a letter of award (LoA) for six-laning of Kagal-Satara section of NH-48 in Maharashtra to be executed on a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Toll mode under Bharatmala Pariyojana, the company said.

#Infra
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38 tunnels. 927 bridges. Inaccessible terrain. The Udhampur-Baramulla line is an engineering feat. Once commissioned, Kashmiris expect travel time between Srinagar and Jammu to reduce drastically compared to the five hours it takes now by road

#Infra
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The Mumbai International Cruise Terminal, the iconic sea cruise terminal under construction at BPX-Indira Dock, will be commissioned by July 2024.

The terminal will have a capacity of handling 200 ships and one million passengers per annum.

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Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) has signed a loan agreement with the government to extend 1,16,520 million yen or around Rs 7,517 crore to the Western leg of the dedicated freight railway project.

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The budget under Jal Jeevan Mission for 2022-23 has been enhanced to Rs 60,000 crore by the central government, the Jal Shakti Ministry said in a release.

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Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) has clocked record output during the financial year 2021-22.

The BLW manufactured the highest ever 367 locomotives during FY22, including four locomotives exported to Mozambique.

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In a big boost for regional air connectivity in India, as many as 415 air routes have been operationalised under the government's Regional Connectivity Scheme - Udey Desh Ka Aam Nagrik (RCS-UDAN).

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S&P Infrastructure Developers – Skylark Infra Engineering JV on Tuesday emerged as the lowest bidder to construct 20.9 km Phase 3 Package 2 of the 280.8 km Bangalore Satellite Town Ring Road (NH-948A).

#Infra
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The freight loading of the national transporter for the financial year ending on 31 March 2022 stood at 1418.1 MT (provisional), which is 15 per cent more than the previous best set in FY 2020-21 at 1233.2 MT.

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Eight construction firms have submitted bids to construct the new terminal building of Gwalior Airport after Airports Authority of India (AAI) opened technical bids today.

#Infra
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Survey work to provide rail connectivity between the two countries has been done in the Jogbani (Bihar) to Biratnagar, Nepalganj Road (UP) to Nepalganj, New Jalpaiguri (West Bengal) to Kakrabitta via Panitanki, Nautanwa (UP) to Bhairhwa sections.

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Indian Oil Corporation on Sunday said it will invest nearly Rs 840 crore in expanding its Petroleum, Oil and Lubricant (POL) storage capacities, including setting up a greenfield facility, in the Northeast.

#Infra
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Amid rising demand for coal freight and an aggressive push towards diversifying its freight basket, Indian Railways is planning to buy 100,000 more wagons over the next three fiscal years.

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Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated various national highway projects worth ₹2,871.80 crore in Haryana. 

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In a major boost to passengers, electric (MEMU) trains are expected to be run between Bengaluru and Tumakuru starting Friday.

The rake of the DEMU special between Bengaluru (SBC) and Arsikere (06273/4) will be replaced with a 17-coach electric train,

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Similarly, two rakes providing two services between Yashwantpur and Tumakuru (06573/06580 and 06571/2) will be replaced with a MEMU train of 16 car composition.

Both trains double the carrying capacity of the existing DEMU trains.

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4 construction firms have submitted bids to construct 42.21 km Package 4 of the 230 km Amas – Darbhanga Expressway (NH-119D) after National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) opened technical bids today.

#Infra
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General Electric (GE) has entered into agreements with THDC India, National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) and Megha Power to set up a combined pumped hydropower storage capacity of 1.5 giga watt for them.

#Infra
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Centre is set to sanction over Rs 650 crore for the last segment of the Indo-China border connectivity road that will facilitate the link to Kailash Mansarovar & will allow vehicles to drive up to just 75 km away from the pilgrim site.

#Infra
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Power major NTPC Limited has signed an agreement with the Gujarat Gas Limited (GGL) to blend green hydrogen in piped natural gas (PNG) network of GGL at NTPC Kawas township.

#Infra
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JSW Infrastructure, which operates seaports and terminals, has commissioned its first container terminal at New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) as it ventures into the container cargo business.

#Infra
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JSW Infrastructure has a 30-year concession agreement with NMPT for the container terminal on a design, build, finance, operate and transfer basis. The terminal has a quay length of 350 metres and a backup storage area of 15.5 hectares.

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It is designed to handle mainliner cargo vessels at port of up to 9,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units).

The first phase of development of this terminal has been completed, allowing us a current cargo capacity of 2.4 lakh TEUs.

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In order to tap the emerging business opportunity in container cargo, we are investing more Rs ₹300 crore to create close to 4 lakh TEUs capacity by FY24,

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In the last eight years, over 43,000 km state roads, including state highways (SHs), have been accorded the status of national highways (NHs) across the country.

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The average turnaround time for container vessels at major ports has also improved from 43.44 hours in 2014 to 26.58 hours in 2021, it said, adding that five major ports recorded their highest ever traffic during fiscal 2021-22.

#Infra
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The Indian Railways intends to award around 40 stations for redevelopment in 2022-23. 32 will be redeveloped by the different zones of the Indian Railways while eight will be done by the Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA).

#Infra
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JSW Infrastructure has commission its first container terminal at New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) in Karnataka and will make a phase-wise investment of Rs 300 crore to expand its capacity to 4 lakh twenty equipment unit (TEU) by FY24.

#Infra
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Power Minister RK Singh on Thursday said India will soon invite bids for 2,000 MW offshore wind energy projects.

We will bring bids for 1,000 MW in Gujarat and after that 1,000 MW in Tamil Nadu.

#Infra
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Work on the under-construction Hassan Airport is being expedited. Under the revised timeline, the authorities are eager to complete construction of the airport by April 2023.

#Infra
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SWR has completed and commissioned work on 511.7 kms of electrified lines this time. This is the highest since 2003.

#Infra
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CEG Test House through a subcontract from Afcons – SAM India Consortium last week began geotechnical soil investigation work for Agra Metro’s 7.93 km underground section (AGCC-02) connecting RBS College Ramp and Taj Mahal Ramp.

#Infra
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Hindustan Construction Company Ltd. – KEC International Consortium on early Friday morning launched the first set of U-girders for Chennai Metro Line-4’s 7.945 km Package C4-ECV-02 connecting Porur – Poonamallee Bypass.

#Infra
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The 60-MW Naitwar Mori Hydro Electric Project is expected to be completed in the current financial year.

#Infra
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The construction work on phase-1 of the first terminal building, first runway, air traffic control (ATC) tower and other facilities of the Noida international airport at Jewar in Uttar Pradesh will begin next month.

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RITES Ltd. – Power Mech Projects Ltd. JV today emerged as the lowest bidder to construct Bangalore Metro Purple Line’s Challaghatta Depot & Workshop after Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) opened financial bids.

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Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation today invited tenders to appoint a consultant to create a DPR for Bangalore Metro’s Phase 3‘s 37 km Hebbal – Sarjapur metro line.

This comes barely weeks after Karnataka’s CM announced the re-addition of the line.

#Infra
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Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation will be adopting the LiDAR technique using laser-enabled equipment mounted on a helicopter to conduct the ground survey for the preparation of the DPR for the proposed 1,115 km East Coast DFC.

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With the opening up of the various sections of the Eastern DFC, the time taken to transport goods from Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh to West Bengal has reduced significantly -- from nearly 30 hours earlier to 18 hours now,

#Infra
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Around 76 per cent of the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link Project (MTHL) project at Sewri has been completed and MMRDA is planning to finish the work by the end of September 2023.

#Infra
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The length of road projects awarded by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) together increased a little over two times to 5,113 kilometres (km) in March 2022 from the year ago.

#Infra
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The road transport ministry has completed 1,41,190 kilometre of national highways as on March 31 this year out of the set target of 2 lakh km for 2024-25,

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Similarly, the petroleum ministry has completed laying of a gas pipeline of 20,000 km out of 34,500 km targeted for the same period and the power ministry has also surpassed its target for laying the transmission network of 4,54,200 km till the end of March 2022.

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The Department of Telecommunication has created the OFC (Optical Fibre Cable)network of 33,00,997 km as on March 31, 2022 against the set target of 50,00,000 km for 2024-25.

#Infra
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India is setting up a first-of-its-kind standalone renewable battery power bank envisaging an investment of Rs 2,000 crore to make green energy available on tap for discoms and grid operators during peak demand.

#Infra
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Electronics City Metro Neo network is finally taking shape. The Metro Neo, a trolleybus system with overhead electric traction, can run on elevated or at-grade cement roads.

#Infra

Travel time between Bengaluru and Hubballi will come down by 1 hour from next year as the South Western Railway (SWR) has set the target of completing the doubling and electrification of the entire line by March 2023.

#Infra
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SYSTRA MVA Consulting (India) today emerged as the lowest bidder for the Detailed Design Consultant (DDC) contract of the 32.385 km Kanpur Metro and 29.40 km Agra Metro Phase 1 projects’ second corridors.

#Infra
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NHAI is set to monetise two road assets through toll-operate-transfer (TOT) 9 and 10 auctions after cancellation of its ToT 6 and 8 bundle auctions due to poor response

#Infra
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India and Sri Lanka have resumed talks on linking their electricity grids. Study by Power Grid Corporation of India envisaged deployment of either a 500-megawatt (MW) or a 1,000-MW undersea transmission system.

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Prime Minister’s Gati Shakti - National Master Plan, which is being adopted by every infrastructure department, is set to enable faster implementation of the dedicated freight corridors (DFCs).

#Infra
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