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Mumbai: Well-known firm Alstom, a French MNC will be supplying 31 trains for the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited . They will be making 248 metro cars at their manufacturing unit in Sri City located on the outskirts of Chennai. These trains will be used for Mumbai Metro Line 3. The French MNC has bagged a contract worth around 315 million euros (Rs 2633.63 crores). This contract is the biggest order for rolling stock contract for Alstom in Indian operation. Alstom manufacturing unit is based some 73 km from Chennai. Alstom’s engineering unit in Bangalore will be designing and developing the metro cars. In a press release by the company, the official shared that they envisage design, delivery, and commissioning of 31 lightweight and fully furnished modern passenger train sets of eight cars each. The 33.5-km-long underground stretch of Mumbai Metro Line 3 will connect the congested and biggest regions in Mumbai. The Line 3 will be linking Cuffe Parade business district at the ...

Mumbai: The Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T) awarded contract for electrical system works pertaining to power supply for the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro 3 project of Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRC). MMRC signed a System Contract Agreement (SCA) with L&T Ltd. on Friday. The contract was signed by A. A. Bhatt, Director (Systems) of Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation and Puneet Arora on behalf of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. This contract package covers work of design, installation, testing and commissioning of power supply works including receiving sub-stations, 110kV cabling works, traction sub-stations, switching stations, auxiliary main sub-stations, SCADA system and integration with other systems. “Power supply works is a critical component of Metro 3 implementation. We aim to implement robust and technologically advanced power supply system for Metro-3 and complete the works in time so that the 3 project can be completed within stipulated timelines”, said...

Mumbai: The Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T) awarded contract for electrical system works pertaining to power supply for the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro 3 project of Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRC). MMRC signed a System Contract Agreement (SCA) with L&T Ltd. on Friday. The contract was signed by A. A. Bhatt, Director (Systems) of Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation and Puneet Arora on behalf of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. This contract package covers work of design, installation, testing and commissioning of power supply works including receiving sub-stations, 110kV cabling works, traction sub-stations, switching stations, auxiliary main sub-stations, SCADA system and integration with other systems. “Power supply works is a critical component of Metro 3 implementation. We aim to implement robust and technologically advanced power supply system for Metro-3 and complete the works in time so that the 3 project can be completed within stipulated timelines”, said...

Mumbai: The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) today lowered its second Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) at Mumbai Metro-3 package-2 in Azad Maidan for its north bound drive towards Mumbai Central. Here are some photographs of event shared by the MMRC: MMRC lowered second Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) at Azad Maidan MMRC lowered second Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) at Azad Maidan (Photo source: MMRC) Click here to see on portal https://goo.gl/BGQPyg

Today cutter head of #Godavari-1 TBM lowered at Vidya Nagari launching shaft. It will soon start tunneling for 2.9 km stretch between Vidya Nagari and CISA Domestic Airport. Here are some photographs taken from the construction site: Lowering of TBM Cutter Head at Vidya Nagari site of Mumbai Metro 3 Lowering of TBM Cutter Head at Vidya Nagari site of Mumbai Metro 3 Lowering of TBM Cutter Head at Vidya Nagari site of Mumbai Metro 3 Click here to see on portal https://goo.gl/H33SKQ

Mumbai: The inspection report submitted before the two-judge committee on Mumbai Metro 3 , which was appointed by the Bombay High Court, said 30-35% of the transplanted trees are nearly dead, and that there are still 839 trees to be transplanted. The report prepared by a junior committee consisting of two officers of the Maharashtra State Legal Services Authority, pointed out that 2,439 trees should have been planted till date, but not even a few hundred trees have been planted. The petitioners have contended that the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) is taking proper care to prevent unnecessary hacking of trees, but the authorities are not taking enough care to transplant them as only 65-70% trees have shown sprouting of leaves. Justice Shantanu Kemkar and Justice B.R. Gavai directed the MMRCL to give a detailed plan on where they propose to plant/transplant trees. The judges also asked the petitioners to give details of other spaces where trees could be planted. The judges...

Mumbai: Work on constructing the first-ever tunnel in Mumbai for the fully underground Metro 3 line began at the Naya Nagar site in Mahim on Friday, with two more tunnel boring machines (TBMs) lowered to dig towards Dadar. Naya Nagar is one of the seven ‘launching shafts’ from where tunnelling operations will be conducted. The others are at Cuffe Parade, Azad Maidan, Worli, Kalina, Sahar Road and Marol Naka. Azad Maidan is the next site where tunnelling work will start, said Ashwini Bhide, Managing Director, Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC). “This phase of tunnelling will be completed by 2019,” said Ms. Bhide. In all, 17 TBMs will be deployed to construct the two 33.5-km long tunnels. Five TBMs have arrived in the city, one of which is still at the Mumbai port. Of the rest, three have been lowered into the launching shaft and one has started tunnelling. “By November-end, all five machines will be operational,” Ms. Bhide said. The first boring mach...

Mumbai: The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) executing the underground Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro-3 corridor plans to interconnect (integrate) the underground Metro corridor with the proposed Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train terminal at Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC). The alignment of the underground Metro corridor passes through BKC where the terminal for the proposed bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad is to come. High Speed Bullet Train Project in India (Photo for representative use only) According to MMRC officials, the BKC Metro station and bullet train terminal will be connected through an underground subway, which will have a moving walkway or travelator installed. “Installing a moving walkway depends on the distance between the BKC Metro station and bullet train terminal. If the distance turns out to be more than 300-500 metres, a walkway will have to be installed,” an MMRC official said. The official added, “At this stage, the exact location of bullet tra...

Mumbai: While Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) has said that the tunneling work for Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro-3 will commence in October, it has now washed its hands of, saying MMRC won"t be responsible for any collapse of old dilapidated buildings that may occur during the tunneling work and the contractors would be solely responsible for the same. However, MMRC has said that the contractor is conducting a pre-construction survey of all the structures in the influence zone of Metro-3 alignment and during the tunneling all these structures will be monitored to avoid any untoward incident or accident. Ashwini Bhide, Managing Director, MMRC, said, "We are using the latest technology when it comes to tunneling, which is very safe. There should be no scope for any structure collapsing or loss of life due to tunneling. However, in case of a collapse, it is the contractor who is responsible for the same and not MMRC." Bhide added, "The residents of those structures t...