The chief of Delhi’s metro rail system Elattuvalapil Sreedharan resigned on Sunday after a section of an overhead bridge under construction gave way and crushed five workers to death.
This is the second such accident involving the mass transit system in less than 12 months. Last October, a section of an under-construction flyover in the capital’s Lakshminagar area collapsed and fell on a bus, killing at least two persons.
The Metro project, led by the 77-year-old Sreedharan, came under rare media criticism following the deaths.
Sreedharan has enjoyed strong government support so far and is not shackled by the delays, cost-overruns and red tape that have plagued big projects in India for decades.
His reputation , access to officials including the prime minister, and a mandate to jump obstacles himself rather than wait for civic authorities, have enabled him to get results.
The widely acclaimed chief’s resignation could also come as a serious blow to Delhi Metro projects scheduled to be completed before the Commonwealth Games.
Sreedharan’s resignation comes at a time when Nandan Nilekani, another engineer-entrepreneur and co-founder of Infosys Technologies, quit his job to head a government agency.
Do you feel the Delhi metro chief took the right decision and will his resignation be accepted?
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DMRC is one of the most challenging projects of utmost national importance that needs an aggressive leadership . Mr Shreedharan has provided an unparalleled leadership and management support to this project for a long time. DMRC is now facing even tougher challenges like growing connectivity and thus complexities, budget restrictions and tougher time lines because of approaching common-wealth games. Though, a mishap in construction business is not rare, in modern days safety is considered primary. So for me, what’s more important for a nation like ours, is to keep the pace of progress maintained and steady. Mr Shreedharan seems to have over reacted on this situation. He could have had accepted the moral responsibility of the mishap in some other way, resigning is no option out at this moment. Not at-the-least what we Indians were looking out from him at this stage.
Look at the confidence level? Does any other person dare to do this? Every one love the position but not the job or work. Taking his success rate in to account this incident is just a minor mole in his career…
project are unique and it has diffent event and activity to complete the project.in project there is risk which impact the project. at this impact time leadership quality of the project manager is very important.
when any accident take place the manager should give the reason why such type of accident take and avoid such accident in future. just taken the moral responsibily and resign from job not right decision. give reason of accident and avoid such accident in future is important.
as india need metro rail project in urban city.so E.Shreedharan not to resign from the job and avoid the accident in future.