What moved in India, week by week.

Archive — India

Earlier weeks

• Week to 28 September 2026 — Network Rail tenders £949.9m of rail haulage, Madrid puts an €873.3m metro extension to tender and Gujarat opens eleven Ahmedabad Metro packages, in an issue rebuilt from a full read of the register.
• Week to 21 September 2026 — Ireland's Cabinet clears the €15.7 billion Dublin MetroLink to proceed to detailed tender stage, as India completes more than 365 km of viaduct on the Mumbai–Ahmedabad bullet train and the UK brings Chiltern Railways into public ownership.
• Week to 14 September 2026 — India commissions a 1,506-km freight rail corridor connecting JNPA to New Dadri, as Poland's Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia tenders PLN 4.52bn for zero-emission rail rolling stock and Hungary opens a HUF 60.55bn ETCS signalling tender for the Debrecen–Nyíregyháza line.
• Week to 7 September 2026 — New Delhi approves ₹18,131 crore for Mumbai Metro Lines 5 and 5A and clears the DPR for the 671 km Hyderabad–Mumbai bullet train, as PM Modi prepares to inaugurate ₹20,703 crore of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor and lay ₹30,766 crore of rail foundations in Vadodara.
• Week to 31 August 2026 — An Adani Group arm wins ₹665.61 crore to build civil works on the Bengaluru Suburban Rail Project, as CMRS clears rolling stock for Mumbai Metro 4/4A and Tamil Nadu reopens its metro expansion review for five cities.
• Week to 24 August 2026 — Maharashtra's ₹17,725 crore sanction for Mumbai Metro Line 13 and MRVC's ₹19,293 crore Vande Metro trainset order lead a week that also brought three new Ahmedabad Metro Phase 3 tenders and a ₹879 crore GMRC airport package.
• Week to 17 August 2026 — A quiet week on the wire: Chennai studies a water metro and maps multimodal access for 41 stations.
• Week to 10 August 2026 — Delhi and Noida move ₹2,600 crore of civil work while Bengaluru's CBTC upgrade clears the Railway Board.
• Week to 3 August 2026 — The Centre redraws the metro map: one RRTS extension cleared, four city proposals refused, and a national train-control system planned.
• Week to 27 July 2026 — Chennai maps two extensions while the Centre counts 1,159 km of metro — and allocates ₹30,942 crore more.
• Week to 20 July 2026 — Bengaluru puts ₹1,274 crore of platform screen doors on the table — the week's biggest buyable package.
• Week to 13 July 2026 — Two rolling-stock tenders open in one week. (This issue carries a correction on the Guwahati item.)

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Compiled by Watchtower, Mainline's automated weekly watch over the public procurement record — portals and trade pages in India, open procurement data services in the other markets — and verified to editorial standards set by the Managing Partner. How the platform is compiled →