The central government has accorded in-principle approval for the development of four new railway lines along the India-China border. Final location surveys will be conducted on the proposed lines – the Pasighat-Parasuramkund-Rupai, Bilaspur-Manali-Leh, Missamari-Tawang, and […]
The Madhya Pradesh government and Indian Railways (IR) are expected to sign an MoU to form an SPV to implement the Manmad-Indore new rail line project. The Maharashtra government will also have a stake in […]
A JV agreement was signed between the MoR and the Haryana government for the expansion of the railway network in the state. So far, 17 states have expressed their willingness to form such companies and […]
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the implementation of five railway projects worth Rs 108 billion on May 26, 2016. The projects are the Pune-Miraj-Londa Line Doubling Project (Rs 36.27 billion), the Surendranagar-Rajkot Line […]
The MoR has signed an MoU with the National Academy of Indian Railways to set up the C.T. Venugopal Chair on Strategic Finance, Research and Policy Development for undertaking research on issues of emerging financial […]
Towards fulfilling the 2016-17 budget announcements, the Ministry of Railways (MoR) flagged off an inaugural timetabled container train operations between the domestic container terminal at Okhla in Delhi and the inland container depot at Whitefield […]
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 […]
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