The two 6.52m diameter EPBMs have started excavating for the first underground tunneling package (KNPCC-05) of the 32.4 km Kanpur Metro Phase 1 project’s 8.6 km underground section by contractor Gulermak-Sam India JV.
Kanpur Metro has two corridors: IIT Kanpur to Naubasta Corridor and Agriculture University to Barra-8 Corridor. The TBMs for the package of the 23.8 km Orange Line-1 connecting IIT Kanpur to Naubasta has a length of 3619 meters and includes four stations. This includes an elevated section of 15.16km and an underground stretch of 8.62km.
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