On 28/05/20 Larsen & Toubro began lowering parts of TBM DZ669 (named Avni) and DZ671 (named Vindhya) into the Shivajinagar and Cantonment stations, respectively, for driving tunnels on the 21.386 km Line-4 (Reach 6 / Pink Line) of the 73.92 km Bangalore Metro Phase 2 project.

The Slurry TBMs (diameter 6.65m), manufactured by CRCHI Ltd (China Railway Construction Heavy Industry) in Changsha, China, passed factory acceptance tests in November – December 2019 and reached Bangalore in February/March 2020. The machines will drive tunnels on the 2.755 km package RT-02 (Vellara Road Station – Shivaji Nagar) and 2.884 km package RT-03 (Shivajinagar Station – Tannery Road), which were awarded by the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) in February 2019. Click here and in/54 for tunnelbuilder archive. Visit  https://english.bmrc.co.in/ and https://themetrorailguy.com. 23/20.