DELHI Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has awarded Bombardier a contract worth around Rs 15bn ($US 228m) to supply 162 broad-gauge metro cars.
THE Indian government's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the prime minister Mr Narendra Modi, has approved a revised cost estimate for the Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) projects of Rs. 814.6bn ($US 12.8bn).
INDIAN Railways (IR) has launched a tender for a contract worth around Rs 25bn (390m) to supply 315 EMU cars for inter-city services.
DEDICATED Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCL) has awarded a Rs 50.8bn ($US 794m) contract to a joint venture of GMR Infrastructure and SEW Infrastructure to build a 402km section of the 1839km Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor.
DELHI Metro Rail Corporation has awarded an Rs 6.45bn ($US 100m) contract to BEML, India, for 75 broad-gauge metro cars.
The Phase 3 expansion of the Delhi metro network reached another milestone on June 8, when India's urban development minister Mr Venkaiah Naidu and the chief minister of Delhi Mr Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated the 1km northern extension of the Violet Line (Line 6) from Mandi House to ITO.
RIDERSHIP on Mumbai's first metro line has exceeded 100 million less than a year after its inauguration, according to the line's operators RATP Dev and Transdev.
INDIA's Pink City Jaipur inaugurated its first metro line on June 2, when the 9.6km Phase 1A of the Pink Line from Mansarova to Chandpole was officially opened by Mrs Vasundhara Raje, chief minister of the state of Rajasthan.
INDIAN Railways' Rs 240bn ($US 4.5bn) project to construct a 63km elevated rail corridor linking Churchgate to Virar in Mumbai has been abandoned following a lack of response from private parties.
CONSTRUCTION of the first phase of Hyderabad's metro network reached a milestone on May 8 with the first trial run on the 4.4km northern section of Line 1 between the depot at Miyapur and Kukatpally.