Agra Metro in India: the TBM “Yamuna” has reached the Agra Fort station

Work on the Agra Metro reached an important milestone with the excavation of a tunnel between the Jama Masjid and Agra Fort stations.

On 25 April 2023, the TBM "Yamuna", 6.52 m in diameter and 95 m long, after being inaugurated in February by the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath and having traveled 334 meters from the launch pit to Ramleela Maidan, reached the Agra Fort station and will continue on to the Taj Mahal station.

The UPMRC Managing Director Sushil Kumar declared that, "This is the fastest Breakthrough (tunnel junction between two stations) achieved by any metro project in the country, in a record 77 days since the launch of the TBM. We are striving to commence metro operations 6 months ahead of schedule, in March 2024".

This was also a great achievement for Italferr, which, in a JV with Spanish engineering company TYPSA, was awarded the "General Consultant Engineering Services" project for the Kanpur and Agra Metro rail lines in the state of Uttar Pradesh in 2020 for a total duration of 5 years.

Agra is the third most populated city in Uttar Pradesh. In recent decades it has experienced unprecedented expansion with a more than tenfold increase in urban area and an exponential growth in population that have greatly impacted the city's transportation system.

The Integrated Mobility Plan has therefore envisaged the development of a mass transit system along two priority corridors:

Corridor-1 from Sikandra to Taj East Gate (14 km)

              6.35 km elevated

              7.65 km underground

              13 stations

Corridor-2 from Agra Cantt to Kalindi Vihar (16.2 km)

              15.4 km elevated

              0.8 km at grade

              14 stations

This is the largest contract that Italferr has ever acquired in India, with which it confirms its leadership not only in the High Speed sector but also on the international metropolitan public transport scene, thereby becoming one of the main players in the Indian engineering market where the FS Group's Infrastructure Hub company has been present for some years now with a branch in New Delhi.