{"id":581623,"date":"2023-06-03T09:48:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T04:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=581623"},"modified":"2023-06-03T10:47:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T05:17:35","slug":"delhi-metro-launches-tunnel-boring-machine-bhoomi-under-phase-iv-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-metro-launches-tunnel-boring-machine-bhoomi-under-phase-iv-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Metro launches tunnel boring machine &#8216;Bhoomi&#8217; under Phase-IV project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi Metro on Friday started a tunnelling drive by the Tunnel Boring Machine named &#8220;Bhoomi&#8221; from Derawal Nagar to Pulbangash on an upcoming corridor under its &#8216;Phase IV&#8217; project, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The TBM was launched at Derawal Nagar metro station site on &#8216;Line 8&#8217;, being built from Janakpuri West to R K Ashram, in the presence Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Managing Director Vikas Kumar and other senior officials, they said.<\/p>\n<p>The length of the tunnel is approximately 3 kilometres. The depth of tunnelling will vary from 12.4 meters at Derawal Nagar station up to 25.9 m near the Najafgarh Drain. Therefore, the TBM will traverse through varying geological levels underground, the DMRC said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi Metro on Friday started a tunnelling drive by the Tunnel Boring Machine named &#8220;Bhoomi&#8221; from Derawal Nagar to Pulbangash on an upcoming corridor under its &#8216;Phase IV&#8217; project, officials said. The TBM was launched at Derawal Nagar metro station site on &#8216;Line 8&#8217;, being built from Janakpuri West to R K Ashram, in the presence Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Managing Director Vikas Kumar and other senior officials, they said. The length of the tunnel is approximately 3 kilometres. The depth of tunnelling will vary from 12.4 meters at Derawal Nagar station up to 25.9 m near the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}