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Tunnelling under the Mithi river: how Mumbai Metro is meeting the challenge

By Ravnish Sharma 2013 days ago Replies (1)

News article by IndianExpress which explains in most explanatory way and in layman's terms the challenges the Mumbai metro faces:

Seventeen Tunnel Boring Machines (17 TBMs) lowered by contractors of the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd into Mumbai’s belly have now completed burrowing through about half the 33.5-km route of the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro Rail, India’s first fully underground Metro system.

please read further in IndianExpress.com:

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/tunnelling-under-the-mithi-how-mumbai-metro-is-meeting-the-challenge-5727871/

By Ravnish Sharma 1722 days ago
I wrote about this most important milestone almost 300 days ago. That most important milestone came. The Mumbai Metro Line 3 has successfully finished tunnelling under the the Mithi river.
Only the second such work in whole India.
Congratulations to Mumbai Metro Line 3 workers.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/metro-3-passes-through-mithis-main-water-region-sets-record/article30936868.ece

Metro 3 passes through Mithi’s main water region, sets record
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Tunnelling on 1.48-km stretch likely to be over by March-end

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Tunnelling under the Mithi river: how Mumbai Metro is meeting the challenge

Metro 3 passes through Mithi’s main water region, sets record

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