Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited
L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad Limited and the Telangana Government are on a collision course regarding the Rs 14,132 crore metro rail project, with the former even suggesting that the State take over the project. Contending that the project viability is being challenged by delays in securing clearances having a huge impact on the project financial [...] Continue Reading »
L&T (Larsen and Toubro) Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited today hinted at the possibility of cost escalation of the elevated metro rail project by about Rs 2,500 crore to Rs 3,000 crore.The Rs 12,132-crore-project may need such additional funding for some of the unavoidable circumstances. These include the initial delay in the appointed date, inflation and [...] Continue Reading »
The feasibility study for change in alignment of L&T Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited will be concluded within month and submitted to the Telangana Government. Thereafter, if the changes are to be brought about, which the Government would decide, the concessionaire L&T would be compensated. This could mean an additional investment of about few hundred crores [...] Continue Reading »
L&T Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited has begun the test runs on a small stretch from its Uppal depot to Secunderabad section. The concessionaire L&T expects to commission first stretch of 8 km of the 72-km elevated metro project by March 2015. Once the trial runs are completed, it will take few detailed tests of the [...] Continue Reading »
A bid to rein in the TRS government that had threatened to create many hurdles for the Hyderabad Metro Rail project, the Centre summoned the Telengana chief secretary Rajiv Sharma for a special meeting in Delhi this Friday. In the meeting the representatives of the concession partner Larson & Toubro and other authorities of Hyderabad [...] Continue Reading »
Land transfer of 2.15 acres has been allowed by the Defence Ministry. This has been given away to L&T Hyderabad Metro Rail so that the construction of Parade Grounds can be carried out. This includes Metro station and Right way spanning which takes up about 2.23 kilometres in the Defence areas. This issue has been [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad – As the construction of Hyderabad metro is gaining pace, a demand propped up by the Heritage Conservation Committee (HCC) to construct the metro underground in some selected stretches so that no heritage sites of Hyderabad get affected. This request of letter was sent by HCC chairman and former Union environment secretary to Chief [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- According to Larsen & Tuobro chief, Hyderabad metro is expected to run in mid 2015. Hyderabad metro rail project is one of the largest urban infrastructure projects in India which is under public-private partnership. This rail project will run along 71.16km distance with three corridors having 66 stations. The first phase which connects Nagole [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- The Hyderabad Metro rail is finally sticking to age-old overhead power line system called AC Traction because they don’t have skilled engineers to adopt modern Third Rail technology of power supply for the train. This modern technology is very prevalent in Europe where power supply line is positioned in between the tracks and supplies 750 volt DC voltage. While in traditional line system [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- The Hyderabad metro rail project will soon have aerial 25 KV power line across 72-km viaduct. This line will be constructed in three corridors. The concerned authorities initially thought to go for prevalent trend in Europe of having power line between tracks. But later on discussions with experts and studying the power systems of some existing [...] Continue Reading »
