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Bengaluru's suburban rail project has handed out two civil packages in two days, and both are concrete-heavy. K-RIDE issued Cemindia…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone on Friday, 30 October, for widening the Ahmedabad-Mehsana highway (State Highway 41)…

The Centre has sanctioned Rs 239.40 crore to fix the Chutupalu and Charhi ghats on the Ranchi-Hazaribagh highway, two hill…

Afcons Infrastructure has turned two Uttar Pradesh bids into signed work worth about Rs 3,469 crore: a 24.5 km stretch…

Dilip Buildcon has received the Letter of Award for the Rs 688.23 crore four-lane elevated corridor on NH-65 through Solapur…

Jharkhand's cabinet has cleared Rs 607.03 crore for the Nimdih-Kukru mega lift irrigation scheme, which will pump water out of…

Uttarakhand has put Rs 122.69 crore behind a drinking-water dam on the Ramganga river at Gairsain, and Chief Minister Pushkar…

Coal India's capital spending for April to September came in at Rs 7,966 crore, 27% up on last year and…

Maharashtra's Cabinet Infrastructure Committee on Tuesday cleared Mumbai Metro Line 12A at Rs 13,856.37 crore. The figure is far bigger…

Eimco Elecon has put an Indian-built diaphragm wall grab on the market. The Vallabh Vidyanagar company told the exchanges on…

Uttar Pradesh has named the builders for its next four link expressways. On 27 October the state cabinet approved the…

The statistics ministry's September project-monitoring print shows 1,853 central-sector projects worth Rs 37.56 lakh crore, up 122 projects and Rs…

Bajel Projects has the EPC order for the Lakadia A transmission scheme in Gujarat, worth Rs 1,500 crore including GST.…

From Sunday, 1 November, a tipper, transit mixer or low-bed trailer registered outside Delhi will be turned back at the…

Jyoti Structures has now won three line packages on Power Grid's Barmer HVDC scheme, worth Rs 1,598.26 crore in all.…

Ramky Infrastructure has signed a Rs 588.57 crore EPC contract with Rail Vikas Nigam (RVNL) to build 17 residential towers,…

B.L. Kashyap and Sons has won a Rs 495.86 crore order from Signature Global (India) to build the civil structure,…

KEC International has booked Rs 2,872 crore of 765 kV transmission line work from Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL),…

Gujarat's state transmission utility has handed Jyoti Structures a 765 kV line worth Rs 689.93 crore, and the company told…

Union Home Minister Amit Shah laid foundation stones for 33 Delhi Jal Board projects worth Rs 6,114.11 crore on Thursday,…

Building work has started on the Rs 2,500 crore expansion of Thiruvananthapuram's international terminal, which Adani Airports calls Project Anantha.…

Essar Ports has the Letter of Award for a Rs 2,276.06 crore multipurpose cargo terminal at Tuna Tekra, Kandla, issued…

L&T has won two government building orders in one announcement: Common Central Secretariat buildings 4 and 5 on Kartavya Path…

China will require export licences for tunnel boring machines from 18 November 2026, and the list goes past TBMs to…

Andhra Pradesh now has its own number under Green Energy Corridor Phase 3. The Centre has cleared Rs 21,838 crore…

The road transport ministry has used its new catastrophic failure clause for the first time, against two highway developers whose…

From 1 December 2026, the designs of NHAI's biggest bridges must be checked by an outside agency before the authority…

Shivalaya Construction now owns the project company for ERES-47, the new 765 kV corridor that runs from Nawada in Bihar…

LCC Projects has won a Rs 151.57 crore engineering, procurement and construction order under Gujarat's Sauni Yojana to carry water…

Chhattisgarh PWD bridge tenders worth Rs 243.81 crore have been cleared: the public works department's tender committee approved bids on…

Vascon Engineers has a Rs 198 crore letter of acceptance from State Bank of India to build its learning and…

Chennai's Rs 3,108.55 crore ring main project moved from paper to site on 14 October, when Tamil Nadu Chief Minister…

Ahluwalia Contracts (India) has won a Rs 310 crore order to build six blocks at Bennett University in Greater Noida,…

Bihar's cabinet cleared Rs 1,412.65 crore of water and power works on Monday, 12 October. Most of it goes to…

IRCON International has a Letter of Acceptance from East Central Railway for Rs 862.46 crore of track work on the…

Gujarat has approved Rs 1,331.30 crore to pump water from the Madhuban Reservoir uphill to 46 tribal villages in Valsad…

Brahmaputra Infrastructure has a letter of acceptance for a Rs 89.73 crore bridge over the River Ravi in Punjab, won…

KEC International's latest Rs 1,030 crore order batch, announced on 8 October, holds one piece of work that matters to…

The Centre has sanctioned Rs 993.64 crore to rebuild the Rangpo-Ranipool stretch of NH-10, the main road into Gangtok, as…

Mumbai Airport will start tearing down the north section of Terminal 1B in January 2027, the first phase of a…

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu wants Rs 2,000 crore of work done in Amaravati every month. Contractors finished…

Capacit'e Infraprojects has a Rs 368.98 crore Letter of Acceptance from Chennai Metro Rail Limited to put up buildings beside…

Wheeled construction equipment registrations jumped 38% in September 2026 to 6,486 units, the best month of the financial year so…

Escorts Kubota sold 795 construction machines in September 2026, nearly double the 413 it sold in September 2025. Before reading…

Chhattisgarh road projects worth Rs 672.22 crore are about to move: the public works department has approved tenders for 24…

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has struck down the land acquisition for a section of the Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri broad-gauge rail line…

Gurugram Metro Phase 2 cleared its last state hurdle on 1 October: the Haryana government approved the Rs 1,662 crore…

The Centre has sanctioned Rs 1,175.59 crore for a new six-lane bridge over the Teesta at Sevoke on NH-10, the…

The Union Cabinet has cleared Green Energy Corridor Phase 3, and the number that matters to equipment owners is not…

Action Construction Equipment has won an order to supply 74 four-wheel-drive backhoe loaders to the Border Roads Organisation. The company…

Maharashtra's Public Works Department has issued a Rs 10,502.36 crore administrative approval for the eastern arm of the Pune Ring…

A 500 MW solar block in the Bikaner desert has just turned into a contract, and the part worth reading…

Madhya Pradesh has cleared the four-laning of the 105.01 km Damoh Katni four lane road, and the number worth your…

A Rs 17,167 crore port sanction has landed in Tamil Nadu, and the number equipment buyers should read is not…

Two railway projects the Kashmir Valley had been told to expect are off the table. For anyone running plant in…

The Railway Board has sanctioned the Arakkonam Renigunta railway line third and fourth tracks at Rs 1,936.46 crore, putting a…

Qualcomm India has handed Vascon Engineers a Rs 660.79 crore work order for an office block in Bengaluru. The number…

Indian Railways has sanctioned a four-lane road over bridge at Alkapuri in Vadodara at Rs 166.5 crore. For anyone who…

Assam's cabinet cleared a Rs 11,000 crore cement investment on Thursday, and for anyone running iron in the Northeast the…

Skipper Limited has booked another Rs 797 crore of transmission work. For anyone running earthmoving plant, the useful question is…

India's biggest contractors are booking work faster than they are willing to say where it is. Kalpataru Projects International told…

Delhi has cleared the design for a 5.5 km six-lane elevated corridor on Maa Anandmayee Marg, running from the Outer…

The Railway Board has put a number on one of the eight rail multitracking projects the Union Cabinet cleared earlier…

NHAI has written one rulebook for the corridors that sit between a full expressway and an ordinary national highway. Two…

IndianOil has put a sanctioned number behind a 425 km gas line running from Kerala into southern Tamil Nadu. For…

Karnataka has cleared a Rs 6,925 crore multipurpose port and shipbuilding centre at Manki in Uttara Kannada district, along with…

Rail Vikas Nigam finally has the paperwork it was waiting on. East Coast Railway issued the state-run builder a Letter…

Indian Railways has sanctioned Rs 133.2295 crore for a four-lane road over bridge on the Udhna Ukai Songadh section in…

Adani Power broke ground on Sunday for a 3,200 MW coal-fired station at Chapar in Assam's Dhubri district, a Rs…

Welspun Enterprises told the exchanges on Sunday that its subsidiary has picked up two sewer rehabilitation orders in Ahmedabad worth…

A right-to-information reply from the road transport ministry has finally put a number on what anyone who has driven the…

GPT Infraprojects has taken the single biggest piece of RVNL's four-bridge Odisha package: the Mahanadi crossing, at Rs 483.72 crore…

A 5.8 km road does not usually get its own story. This one earns it on price. The Centre has…

Karnataka's cabinet met in Mangaluru on Friday 18 September and cleared projects worth Rs 32,611 crore. Roads took the biggest…

If you are booking a tipper, a transit mixer or a truck-mounted pump on a Tata Motors chassis, the useful…

The Railway Board has cleared Rs 383.78 crore to build a Vande Bharat coach maintenance depot at Tatanagar. For anyone…

Indian Railways has sanctioned a new 38.21 km broad-gauge line between Mukutban and Gadchandur at Rs 493 crore, a greenfield…

Uttar Pradesh has sanctioned a short, expensive piece of expressway, and the per-kilometre number is what fleet owners in Bundelkhand…

KEC International says it has won Rs 1,303 crore of new orders. For anyone who owns machines in India, the…

Maharashtra has sanctioned Rs 343.99 crore for a short stretch of district road north of Nashik and a new interchange…

Haryana has cleared five city bypasses carrying an estimated Rs 9,700 crore, and for anyone running road plant in the…

Meghalaya picked up Rs 1,010.95 crore of fresh project starts on Monday. Read the split rather than the headline and…

Dilip Buildcon has been picked to build and then run an LPG pipeline from Paradip in Odisha to Raipur in…

Uttar Pradesh's first double decker elevated road has cleared its first funding hurdle in Greater Noida, and for anyone who…

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared eight railway multitracking projects on 9 September 2026, worth Rs 20,804 crore across…

Kirby India broke ground at Manapparai, near Trichy, on 7 September for its fourth pre-engineered building plant. Two things in…

Odisha has handed a single contractor four four-laning packages in one cabinet sitting, and the accepted bids came in roughly…

Odisha has cleared the biggest single block of transmission spending in its history, and for equipment owners in the state's…

Wheeled construction equipment was the fastest-growing vehicle category in India last month, and the machine that has owned the segment…

A thermal power station in Bihar has just handed the railway construction market its clearest three-year job of the month.…

Power Grid has picked up the two biggest transmission awards of the month inside three days, and the larger of…

The road ministry has sanctioned Rs 2,077.18 crore to four-lane a 31.02 km stretch of NH-327 through the Siliguri Corridor.…

Ceigall India has a letter of intent for a Rs 5,300 crore transmission build in Gujarat, and the figure that…

Madhya Pradesh's cabinet has cleared a revised cost for the Western Bhopal Bypass, and the headline increase is the least…

A Rs 741 crore letter of intent for two Mumbai residential towers will not make the front page next to…

Skipper Limited says it has picked up Rs 1,305 crore of new transmission and distribution orders across Indian and overseas…

The Centre has sanctioned Rs 840.41 crore to upgrade two stretches of NH-365BB in Andhra Pradesh, running to 45.09 km…

Uttar Pradesh has cleared Rs 272.25 crore to build the trunk infrastructure for an 811-acre manufacturing and logistics cluster beside…

Uttar Pradesh sanctioned a second greenfield expressway this week, and it costs less per kilometre than anything the state has…

Adani Energy Solutions has won a Rs 4,700 crore transmission build in western Maharashtra. For anyone running earthmoving or lifting…

Uttar Pradesh has finally put a price on the Ganga Expressway's northern arm. On 25 August the state cabinet cleared…

Madhya Pradesh has cleared the four-laning of the Seoni-Balaghat road, and the figure travelling with the story is worth reading…

Ceigall India and Sushee Infra & Mining have taken a Rs 704.70 crore letter of acceptance from the road ministry…

A greenfield steel plant is one of the few jobs that keeps a contractor's whole yard busy for three years…

Power Grid Corporation has won the right to build one of Gujarat's biggest renewable evacuation schemes, and the machine work…

India has signed for the money on a Chennai water and sewerage overhaul that will put more than 170 kilometres…

Maharashtra has re-approved Mumbai Metro Line 10 at Rs 8,535.49 crore and bolted a Ghodbunder Road widening job onto the…

The Union Cabinet cleared Rs 13,041 crore of rail and road work on 19 August 2026, and for equipment buyers…

Maharashtra has cleared two large civil packages in a single sitting, and between them they put about Rs 28,227 crore…

Ceigall India and Sushee Infra & Mining now hold four signed letters of acceptance for road work on NH-913 in…

Kalpataru Projects International said on Friday it has won new orders worth about Rs 3,526 crore, all of them in…

Ashoka Buildcon has taken the letter of intent for a 400/220/132 kV substation at Sakoli in Maharashtra's Bhandara district, awarded…

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles has committed a further Rs 4,000 crore to Tamil Nadu, and for anyone running or buying…

Odisha has committed Rs 12,458.04 crore of its own money to lifting river water onto land that gravity canals cannot…

Andhra Pradesh cleared Rs 2.08 lakh crore of fresh investment on Wednesday, and for anyone who owns or hires machines…

A Rs 334.89 crore sanction for 3.584 km of elevated road inside Visakhapatnam Port works out to about Rs 93…

Madhya Pradesh has cleared Rs 1,757.55 crore to widen the 44.83 km Bhopal-Vidisha road to four lanes with paved shoulders.…

Hindustan Construction Company has taken a Rs 524.17 crore order from NHPC to repair the concrete dam at the Salal…

Bajel Projects has picked up two transmission line packages from POWERGRID worth more than Rs 700 crore between them, and…

Uttarakhand's cabinet has cleared a memorandum of understanding with Uttar Pradesh to extend the Ganga Expressway from Meerut to Haridwar.…

J. Kumar Infraprojects has taken a Rs 990.16 crore letter of acceptance from the Karnataka Housing Board to build an…

RMZ has handed Tata Projects a Rs 670.24 crore contract to build RMZ Infinity, a four-tower commercial campus in Porur,…

Tata Projects has a new managing director and chief executive, and his background says something useful about where one of…

Noida Metro Rail Corporation has handed Larsen & Toubro the civil package for both Aqua Line extensions: the elevated viaduct…

Every wire ran the same number this week: wheeled construction equipment retail up 46.07% in July. It is the fastest-growing…

The Centre has cleared the Guwahati-Tezpur corridor on NH-15 in Assam, and the number that matters to fleet owners is…

Afcons Infrastructure has a letter of acceptance from Mumbai's civic body for a Rs 1,918 crore water tunnel under the…

Transmission work rarely makes an equipment buyer's shortlist, and that is exactly why the Kurnool-IV transmission project is worth reading…

NBCC (India) told the stock exchanges on Wednesday that it has picked up fresh domestic work worth Rs 801.20 crore.…

Updated 9 October 2026: SEPC has now signed the contract agreement with SAIL-IISCO for this package and disclosed it to…

KEC International has booked Rs 1,063 crore of fresh orders, and the useful question for anyone running iron is not…

Uttar Pradesh has sanctioned a six-lane greenfield expressway between Noida International Airport at Jewar and the Ganga Expressway, and for…

Haryana has cleared Rs 207.29 crore for an integrated railway overbridge in Rewari that replaces three busy level crossings in…

India's largest crane rental company just booked its best quarter on record, and the revenue line is not the interesting…

Escorts Kubota moved 1,344 construction machines in the June quarter, 27.4% more than a year ago, and still watched its…

Four national highway packages in Andhra Pradesh moved to the ground stage on 1 August 2026, and the part worth…

NCC Limited booked Rs 1,052.71 crore of fresh orders in July 2026, and not one rupee of it was a…

Indian Railways has sanctioned Rs 299 crore to rebuild the coaching yard at Visakhapatnam, one of the busiest terminals in…

Odisha's cabinet cleared four irrigation packages worth roughly Rs 626 crore on 1 August, and the detail that matters to…

Escorts Kubota sold 534 construction machines in July 2026, up 49.2% on the same month last year. A near-50% jump…

Larsen & Toubro has been given a limited notice to proceed on the main plant package of NTPC Lara Stage-III,…

Rail Vikas Nigam has landed a Rs 358.97 crore letter of acceptance from East Central Railway to double 41 km…

Coal India spent Rs 3,399 crore on capital expenditure in the April-June quarter, up 16.64% on last year and slightly…

Cost overruns on India's centrally monitored infrastructure projects have reached Rs 4,92,752 crore, according to the Ministry of Statistics and…

Telangana has released Rs 2,278.14 crore for the Adilabad joint user airfield, but the fine print matters before anyone plans…

Andhra Pradesh has finally put money behind a barrage that sat stuck for the better part of five decades. The…

Uttar Pradesh has cleared four greenfield expressways in a single cabinet sitting, and the combined scope is large enough to…

The Cabinet has cleared a third and fourth railway track between Ballari and Guntakal, and for contractors the headline number…

Here is the DesiMachines desk round-up for 24 Jul 2026 — the live tenders and developments that matter to anyone…

Here is the DesiMachines desk round-up for 22 Jul 2026 — the live tenders and developments that matter to anyone…

Here is the DesiMachines desk round-up for 21 Jul 2026 — the live tenders and developments that matter to anyone…

Odisha rural road projects just got a funding line that runs to 2029-30: Rs 32,067 crore, cleared by the state…

India's machine buyers just got a long-range demand signal worth reading. A new report from the Confederation of Indian Industry…

The Cabinet cleared two elevated highway corridors in Varanasi on 15 July, worth Rs 25,445.96 crore between them. For equipment…

The pattern is hard to miss this month. Inside two weeks, two equipment makers have put fresh money into building…

LiuGong has more than doubled the size of its Indian factory, and for anyone shopping for a wheel loader or…

Two threads ran through India's construction-equipment market this fortnight: a fat public-works pipeline, and a steady push to build more…

ACE and Japan's KATO have put ₹200 crore and a Haryana plant behind their crane joint venture. What it means…

Key facts The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved two NHAI corridors worth Rs 14,114.81 crore on 1 July…

Key Facts: Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) won a Rs 2,977 crore contract from NMDC to build buffer stockpiles and…

Key Facts GHV Infra Projects has won a roughly Rs 213 crore order for railway maintenance and freight infrastructure in…

Key Facts Patel Engineering, with a JV partner, received a Rs 126.37 crore Letter of Acceptance for the Tasgaon Lift…

Key Facts Madhya Pradesh's state cabinet, chaired by CM Mohan Yadav, approved a revised Indore Metro cost of Rs 19,472.29…

Key Facts Union Minister Nitin Gadkari laid foundation stones for six national-highway projects worth Rs 3,214 crore at Shillong on…

Key Facts: Ranjit Buildcon is the lowest bidder (L1) at Rs 383.98 crore for the elevated civil package of Lucknow…

What did RVNL win? RVNL received a Letter of Acceptance worth Rs 967.92 crore (incl. 18% GST) from East Coast…

Afcons Infrastructure has received a letter of award from Vadhvan Port Project Limited for the construction of a 10.14-km breakwater…

Mumbai Metro Line 2B has cleared a major construction milestone, with crews lifting and placing a 252-tonne steel span across…

JSW Infrastructure has won a 30-year public-private partnership concession to develop and operate a 0.93 million TEU container terminal at…

Larsen & Toubro signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tamil Nadu government on June 10 committing Rs 186 billion…

Afcons Infrastructure received the letter of award on June 9, 2026 from Vadhvan Port Project Limited (VPPL) for a 10.14…