Railways

RITES Limited has dispatched a consignment of 60 broad gauge passenger coaches (LHB type) to Bangladesh Railway as a part of its Rs 3.67 billion contract to export 120 such coaches. The coaches, manufactured by […]

The MoR and the Odisha government have formed a JV company for the state’s railway infrastructure development. This is in line with the government’s budget announcement of entering into MoUs with state governments to form […]

The Jind-Sonepat new railway line project was commissioned on June 26, 2016 after a maiden train was flagged off on the line. Safety inspection of the project was conducted in January 2016. The project involved […]

The MoR has selected the consortium of Bansal Construction Works Private Limited and Prakash Asphalting and Toll Highways (India) Limited for the redevelopment of Habibganj railway station. A letter of acceptance has been issued to […]

Indian Railways is expected to seek funds to the tune of Rs 33.47 billion ($500 million) from the World Bank for undertaking the redevelopment of important railway stations in the country. A proposal for this, […]

The GMR Infrastructure Limited-led consortium recently won two contracts worth Rs 22.81 billion. The contracts, awarded on June 7, 2016, are for the design and construction of civil works, structures and track works for the […]

The Ministry of Railways (MoR) will form three JVs with the Karnataka government in order to build infrastructure projects in the state. The JVs are expected to be incorporated by July 2016. The first JV […]

The MoR signed an MoU with the Haryana government on June 2, 2016 for the speedy execution of viable rail projects in the state in the JV mode. The MoU envisages the formation of a […]

The foundation stone was laid for eight railway projects in Gujarat on June 7, 2016. These are the Surendranagar-Rajkot line doubling, the Ahmedabad-Mehsana electrification-cum-gauge conversion, the Mehsana-Taranga Hill gauge conversion, the Vatva-Ahmedabad third line, the […]

The central government has decided to shelve its plan to set up a national industrial corridor authority (NICA), a nodal body to oversee work relating to all national industrial corridors. The plan has been put […]

Spanish firm Talgo has delivered nine passenger coaches to Indian Railways. The new coaches are capable of running at speeds of 160-200 km per hour (kmph) on existing tracks. The first trial run will be […]

Over 85 per cent of the land required for the Dedicated Freight Corridor Project (Western Corridor) has been acquired. Recently, CIDCO received Rs 6.08 billion from Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) to […]

A 21 km long tunnel under the sea has been proposed for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail (HSR) corridor project. As per the detailed project report submitted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), most […]

Work on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST)-Panvel elevated train-cum-road corridor and the Churchgate-Virar elevated train-cum-road corridor is expected to commence by August 15, 2016. The CST-Panvel elevated corridor will be a road and rail corridor […]

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has reportedly set a project award target of 10,000 km for 2016-17. The MoRTH has reportedly already awarded projects worth Rs 1.8 trillion and is likely to […]

The Railway Board has approved an action plan for the redevelopment of the Danapur railway station in Bihar. Under the plan, a second exit point at the station will be built at the southern end […]

France-based national railway operator Société Nationale des chemins de fer Français (SNCF) is conducting a feasibility study for the redevelopment of the Ambala and Ludhiana railway stations, and a team of SNCF officials has surveyed […]

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the implementation of the Ranchi (Hatia)-Bondamunda Line Doubling Project in Jharkhand and the Kiul-Gaya Line Doubling Project in Bihar. The Ranchi (Hatia)-Bondamunda Line Doubling Project involves doubling […]

The Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar High Speed Rail [HSR] Corridor Project is likely to cost Rs 1,000 billion according to the feasibility report submitted by the Systra MVA Consulting (India) Private Limited and Rites Limited joint venture. This […]

The Indore-Mhow section of the Ratlam-Mhow-Khandwa-Akola Gauge Conversion Project is expected to be operational soon. A clearance certificate has been received from the Commissioner of Rail Safety to allow commencement of operations on the stretch. […]