Gandhinagar: The new Gujarati Vikram Samvat calendar year 2080 will be full of lot of new developments for Gujarat. The year will see heightened political activities in connection with the upcoming national general elections of Lok Sabha. As always, the Prime Minister is expected to inaugurate a range of development projects ahead of the implementation of the model code of conduct in the first half of the next year. The year will see further progress in the works for the Surat Metro rail proj...Read More

Surat: The Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation Limited (GMRCL) has entered into an agreement with Titagarh Rail Systems Ltd (TRSL), for commissioning of 72 standard gauge cars for the Surat Metro Rail Phase 1 Project. Furthermore, TRSL has secured a Letter of Acceptance (LoA) for the supply of 30 standard gauge cars for Phase II of the Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project. The estimated cost of this project for TRSL is Rs 857 crores (approximately). The contract's execution is scheduled to commence 76 wee...Read More

Surat: The construction work in the underground section of Surat Metro Line-1, began on September 30 last year. Since then, tunnelling work has been underway from the Kapodra underground station, employing two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) named 'Tapi' and 'Narmada.' Currently, the tunnelling work is progressing from Kapodra Underground to Labheshwar. The authorities claim that the metro train will be operational before December 2024, spanning a distance of 21.61 km from Dream City to Sarthana, ...Read More

Surat: HFCL Limited, a technology enterprise offering communication network solutions for Telcos, Railways, and Defence sectors announced its new order win worth₹282.61 crores from Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) Limited. The company will be setting up telecommunication systems for the Surat Metro Rail Project Phase-I within ninety weeks from the date of the contract. As part of the project, HFCL will be involved in the design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing and commissioning...Read More

Surat: The delegation of German Ambassador Walter Johns Lindner, (Ambassador of the Federal Public of Germany), Stephen Koch (Minister and Head of the Economic and Global Affairs), Maria Enig (Acting Consul General, German Consulate) and Ashumi Shroff (Senior Advisor Economic Affairs) visited the Surat Metro Project on Thursday- 10th February 2022. The German delegation received the details regarding the progress of the metro rail project at Bhimrad in Surat. The Surat Metro Project director...Read More

New Delhi/Gandhinagar/Surat: Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) Ltd. informed that loan agreements for Surat Metro Rail Project-1 in national capital New Delhi have been signed today between Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Govt. of India and German lender- KFW for amount of approx. Rs. 3464 crore (442.26 Million Euros). GMRCL in its note stated: The Surat Metro Rail Project Phase-1 was sanctioned for a total length of 40.35km with a total sanctioned project cost of Rs. 12020.32 Cror...Read More

Surat: Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) Standing Committee Chairman Paresh Patel said in a general meeting of SMC that the Metro rail will start functioning in Surat till December 2023. In the SMC general meeting, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) corporators raised objections regarding the work of the casting yard to be allotted to Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) for 40 months on temporary basis. They raised questions about how much money will be recovered from GMRC by SMC for the land allotted ...Read More

Surat: Works are in progress for metro-train project of Surat. The installation of pillars for the route between Sarthana to DREAM city will begin from October. The soil-testing work for the underground route between Kapodra to Kadarsha Ni Nal has reached the final stage for the first phase of Sarthana to DREAM city metro-train project. The works such as soil testing and testing for the pile of elevated route between Kadrasha Ni Nal to DREAM city are underway and likely to complete within a...Read More

New Delhi: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed today for providing funding to the tune of € 250M for Surat metro rail project in Gujarat between French Development Agency and Finance Ministry of India. This MoU was signed in presence of French ecological transition minister Minister Barbara Pomili and Union Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri. France’s ecological transition minister Barbara Pompili is considered number two in the government. French ...Read More