Delhi dust pollution: All civil construction activities to be halted till June 17

June 2018

On Thursday, June 14, Anil Baijal, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, reportedly ordered all civil construction activities across Delhi to be stopped till...

Tags: Anil Baijal, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, NHAI, DMRC, MCD, PWD, NBCC

Delhi Government to approve Metro expansion

March 2018

The Delhi Government is expected to approve the proposals regarding capacity expansion of metro-rail in a phased manner after discussions with the Un...

Tags: Delhi Government, DMRC JV, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, Hardeep Singh Puri, Majlis-South Campus corridor of Delhi Metro

India's Metro Trail

March 2018

The total length of operational metro projects in India presently stands at about 440 km and is growing. Cities like Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, ...

Tags: Metro rail, NCR, Jagannarayan Padmanabhan, CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory, NDA, MRTS, CoMET, MoHUA, JICA, EIB, Werner Hoyer, PPP, K Ravichandran, ICRA, DMRC

Metro Maker

November 2017

Tata BlueScope Steel's LYSAGHT® have been used in prominent projects such as DMRC, Chennai Metro, Hyderabad Metro, Kochi Metro, and Bangalore Metro, ...

Tags: Tata BlueScope Steel LYSAGHT®, DMRC, Chennai Metro, Hyderabad Metro, Kochi Metro, Bangalore Metro, LYSAGHT SMARTDEK®, KLIPLOK®, COLORBOND® steel, THERMATECH™ solar reflectance technology, MRT system

Fast-Tracking Metro

November 2017

Perceived to be a constructive and good step forward, the Union Cabinet recently approved the Metro Rail Policy 2017 to enable realisation of growing...

Tags: Union Cabinet, Metro-Rail projects, PPP, Dr E Sreedharan, DMRC, Central Government, Abhishek Gupta, BARSYL, Sunil Srivastava, EPC projects, Afcons, NCC, IL&FS Group, ITNL, IECCL

We expect 13 million ridership by 2041

November 2017

Project delays, time and cost overrun in infrastructure projects, delays in regulatory approvals and contractual disputes are some of the challenges ...

Tags: Infrastructure projects, Dr Brijesh Dixit, Maha Metro, Government of India, Government of Maharashtra, DMRC, FIRR, DPR, Agence Frantaise de DTveloppement, EPC, BIM, ERP, Bentley Systems, SAP, RIB

We will directly deal with land-owners if acquisition is delayed

July 2017

Mangu Singh, Managing Director, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) indicates that challenges around land acquisition have slowed down the ongoing ex...

Tags: Mangu Singh, DMRC, Delhi Metro, Construction, ATO, DPR, PPP, JICA, UNFCCC, SPV, Manish Pant

Reliance Infrastructure wins Rs 2,950-crore arbitral award in dispute with DMRC

June 2017

Reliance Infrastructure’s subsidiary Delhi Metro Express has won a Rs 2,950-crore arbitral award against the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), whi...

Tags: Reliance Infrastructure, DMRC, PPP, Punjab National Bank, Axis Bank, Canara Bank, Niti Aayog, CCEA