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U-girder on PDPU Road for constructing the viaduct of the 28.254 stations. Operation of major electrical equipment and lighting
km Ahmedabad Metro Phase 2 project. Afcons’ scope of work are monitored and are operated through Building Management
includes the line’s 8.124 km elevated section from Motera Stadium System. Invertor based VRV/VRF system for air conditioning
to GNLU with 8 stations at Koteshwar Road, Vishwakarma College, at Elevated Stations & depots in Phase-2 have been installed.
Tapovan Circle, Narmada Canal, Koba Circle, Juna Koba, Koba Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) are implemented for underground
Gam, and GNLU, alongwith the 5.42 km section from GNLU to GIFT stations in environmental control system & tunnel ventilation system
City with a bridge over Sabarmati River and 2 stations at Pandit equipment. Platform Screen Doors are adapted in UG stations of
Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) and Gujarat International Phase-II to reduce Air Conditioning load from 900 T to 400 T per
Finance Tec-City (GIFT City). station and hence are expected to reduce the Electrical Power
consumption.
Bangalore (Namma) Metro is an urban Mass Rapid Transit System Bangalore Metro Trains for the new lines and future projects will
(MRTS) with 2 lines and 51 stations serving Bengaluru, Karnataka’s be based on unattended train operation systems. In BMRCL train,
capital and largest city. While the Green Line’s extension to Silk state-of-art 3-phase variable voltage and variable frequency-
Institute became operational in January 2021, the entire phase, controlled traction system not only utilizes energy during braking
including a 13.9 km underground section of the Pink Line, is but also provides high level passenger comfort by automatically
expected to be ready no sooner than 2024 after which the metro controlling jerk during operation. Train Air-conditioned system
network will become 116.25 km long. Bangalore Metro’s Phase 3 automatically regulates the temperature and humidity to provide
project with routes totaling 105.55 km is currently on the drawing comfort to the passenger. Automatic station announcement and
board. From that, 18 km (Central Silk Board – KR Puram) and 38 display system provides a very accurate real time information to
km (KR Puram – KIAL Airport) of lines have been expedited and the passengers.
will be built in parallel with Phase 2 under Phase 2A and Phase 2B
respectively. GR Infraprojects in November-end began launching Bhopal Metro or Bhoj Metro project with 2 lines & 28 stations is
precast segments for completing pending construction work an under construction MRTS. This 105 km master plan envisions
on the 7.5 km Dairy Circle Ramp – Kalena Agrahara section of 6 metro lines criss-crossing the city, out of which 2 lines (line 2
Bangalore Metro’s Pink Line (Reach 6). & 5) have been selected for implementation in Phase 1. The
Several modern technologies have been implemented or are government estimated project deadline is August 2023.
under implementation in BMRCL project. These include installation
of Solar based Power systems of 1.5 MWp installed at 5 stations of India’s first metro operator, Metro Railway, Kolkata, initiated
newly commissioned R-4 extension section. A savings of approx. services to extend the city’s North-South metro from Noapara to
`100 Lakhs per annum is expected due to this with the present Dakshineswar. The 4.1 kms extension provides fast, easy, pollution-
energy tariff. The stations are designed to utilize the natural and traffic-free travel to thousands of commuters in the city and
lighting during day time. LED based lights are installed at all its adjoining areas. The opening of the new line has shortened

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