A fourth rail-linked cargo terminal is proposed to be started by the logistics firm Gateway Distriparks’ rail unit by the end of 2009, at Faridabad, near Delhi, enabling the company to improve its efficiency, by increasing its fill factor, or the utilisat
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The Indian government has approved the proposals of the Railways to set up three factories -- an electric locomotive factory, a diesel locomotive factory and a coach building factory --- as wholly owned departmental production units, with a total investm
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The Indian Railways will set up an electric locomotive factory at Madhepura, in Bihar state, north India, as a departmental production unit.
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Work on 13.77 km long East-West Kolkata Metro corridor project, the first ever in India to be constructed under a river, has formally begun with the laying of the foundation stone by the West Bengal state Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Feruary
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Work on the Chennai Metro Rail Project (CMRP) has begun with the CMRP awarding an INR1.99 billion contract to the Hyderabad-based Soma Enterprise Ltd., to set up a 4.5-km stretch of an elevated viaduct running along the 100-ft Inner Ring Road between Koya
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India's first light rail transit (LRT) system will be set up in the eastern Indian metropolis of Kolkata to connect the northern suburbs with the southern fringes of the city, covering about 40 kms, as part of the government’s efforts to solve the city's
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Posted on: Thursday, February 19, 2009 ; 04:11 IST
A consortium, comprising the Indian government undertaking Bharat Eearth Movers Ltd. (BEML), South Korea’s Rotem and Japan’s Mitsubishi, has bagged the initial order of INR 16.72- billion order for 150 Metro Rail cars from Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation
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RPTL signs power pact with western region power utilities
Reliance Power Transmission (RPTL), subsidiary of Reliance Infrastructure, India’s largest private sector enterprise in power utility, has signed power transmission agreement with eight entities from western India for two inter-state power transmission projects.
RPTL signed the agreement through its two Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) for the projects under the Western Region System Strengthening Scheme-II (WRSSS-II), entailing an investment of INR18 billion, for establishing 400 KV double circuit transmission lines of around 1,500 kms, mainly in Maharashtra Continue
