The 39.259 km Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-I with 32 stations will connect 4 corners of the Ahmedabad city with 2 corridors. The 18.522 km North-South Corridor, completely elevated with 15 stations, will connect Motera Stadium to APMC, Vasna. The 20.737 km East-West Corridor has 17 stations and includes a 6 km underground section with 4 underground stations. This corridor will connect Vastral Gaam to Thaltej Gaam. Old High Court station will be an interchange station for both the corridors.

On January 2017 the Metro-Link Express for Gandhinagar & Ahmedabad (MEGA) secured the two contracts for construction of the underground section:-

- Afcons Infrastructure, package 1, from East Ramp to Kalupur Railway Station with 2 stations at Kankaria East and Kalupur Railway Station (2.446 km);

- Larsen & Toubro, package 2,  from Kalupur Railway Station (excluding) to West Ramp with 2 stations at Shahpur and Ghee Kanta (4.378 km).

In the next few days Larsen & Toubro will start tunnels for the Package.2 with two refurbished Terratec TBMs, which built Delhi Metro's Pink Line.

In the next few months Afcons is going to use a new and a refurbished (S-710, diameter 6.63 m used in Chennai) Herrenknecht TBM to build the line's tunnels for the 2.446 km underground Package-1. The launching shaft at the East Ramp is in Apparel Park.

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