‘People have accepted that the DMRC is infallible... If something goes wrong, they get jolted. That is what has happened here’

The Indian Express Tags : Shekhar Gupta, E Sreedharan, walk the talk, Delhi Metro Posted: Monday , Jul 20, 2009 at 0643 hrs

Delhi Metro chief E Sreedharan.

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With a high-level team probing the Zamrudpur mishap, Delhi Metro chief E Sreedharan wants to assure everyone that the Metro is safe, that such incidents happen in construction sites across the world. In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk at the accident site, Sreedharan says every pillar, every cantilever will be checked and steps taken to ensure the motivation level remains high

•Shekhar Gupta: On a very grim morning in Delhi, we are at a place where my guest this week perhaps would have least expected us to find him. E Sreedharan, not the happiest place for you to be at, isn’t it?

E Sreedharan: No, today morning I am happy to be here because I can see what is going on. We had given certain instructions on how the restoration work is to start and I can see whether it is going on as per schedule or not.

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•Shekhar Gupta: But you would have rather liked to see this place intact, instead of surveying a wreckage.

E Sreedharan: Yes, of course. This has been a very unfortunate, tragic incident and from that angle, I am certainly not happy.

•Shekhar Gupta: Was it avoidable?

E Sreedharan: This is an accident and accidents are accidents. If it is avoidable, it doesn’t become an accident. With all the precautions taken by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation such an incident has happened. I don’t think it was totally avoidable. Now, in hindsight, if we go into all the reasons and find out why this happened, probably we would be able to take steps so that similar accidents don’t happen at other sites.

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We need Metro Man in karachi.By: peeral chandio | 23-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward Metro Man is right in saying this. During construction of all these types of gigantic adventures, such mishaps are reported from golden gate bridge, california, (where also 11 people were killed) to all major upheavals of big constructions. Although there is always a prevailing sense of collapse, which may take place at any time, the constructors should always ensure for least damage in terms of human lives, which can also be averted through goood mechanism/strategy. Hats of to Metro man, who, immediately announced his resignation, owning moral responsibility, which is unprecedented in our country (pakistan). We also need Metro Man, for construction of much awaited Mass transit programme of Karachi, which has been delayed from time and again. We pray for all victims to rest in heaven, for falling under these constructions for not doing any sin but in the hope of better future.

Shridharan shall step a side.By: Akhtar Javed Usmani Chhattisgarh | 21-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward No chance to that Shridharan, who may not at fault but why not let him set a good precedent. The Indian morality is all time low now. Every one wants to cheat other. A farmer of vegetable insert injections to grow the vegetable faster and bigger, he himself do not use it nor will give it to his children, but after selling vegetable he purchase milk for his family and the cow produce milk with help of injections. The milkman purchase provisions which contained dusted bricks in red chili powder and all of them may go to pharmacy which might have the fake drug capsules. The fake Ghee and Dahi and what not all are being unearthed. And country goes on. So the quality of cement, theft by the contractor who still has to pay the bribe or commissions or two to five percent from site in charge to quality controllers can not be ensured by any Shridharan if he had not prepared the mixture himself or measured the rods etc. But Shridharan has made me disappointed. He has acted like a poltician

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