Delhi Metro fall from grace

2009-07-14 05:55:18 - Second accident in twenty four hours at Pillar No 67 at Zamroodpur site of metro has raised many question marks on the quality of work being pursued in the recent metro projects.Metro projects are hort of test checks and tech checks instruments rather engineers visit with their gadgets is rarity of rare.

The carrying of engineering gadgets has become out of vogue.Why needs the engineering simple and complex gadgets as the entire responsiblity is on engineering companies or the crudly called contractors.Supervision is superior
term which is inteself fedual character and many more to plead for their roles as superior men.

Delhi citizen were horrified to see on their electronic channels another crash
on Monday a 200-ton concrete beam failling to the ground on Monday, and three cranes toppled and collapsed due to snap of wire rope of main launcher crane as told by the metro PR on the news channels,at same metro site where six people were killed on Sunday,destroying three enormous cranes and flipping a 16-wheel truckbed thus injuring six people in a second accident involving Delhi Metro in twenty four hours, ironically at the very site where a disaster a day which prompted its chief E. Sreedharan to resign.

More than hundred contractors working on various metro projects but they are not subjected to complete quality as the contractor is free to engage sub-contractors to procure machinery or manpower without any quality test on the machinery and skill deployed from the external source.

The Delhi metro the pride of Delhi on nine accidents in eighteen months has state CM to say on Sreedharan resignation,"We have rejected his resignation after taking into account his exceptional track record. The credit of building the metro on time and looking after its implementation goes to him. Just this incident can't be held against such an eminent person," Dikshit said.

Delhi metro chief best track record has united voice from all political outfits that CEO must continue and keep the Delhi metro quality standards intact to ensure completion of work in time.

Author:
Naresh Sagar
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