E. Sreedharan [The Metro Man]

 E. Sreedharan ( 12^th June 1932)

Elattuvalapil Sreedharan  born on 12^th June 1932 at Palakkad district,Kerala.

No doubt  he is an South Indian…

Many of us don’t even heard about him or even don’t know who he is and his great achievements.

Actually, now a days  The METRO word is heard commonly in prime cities, and we are dreaming for Metro train in few cities so that we can majorly overcome the problems of traffic.

We even know first metro project,that is Kolkata Metro,but we don’t know the name of the chief Engineer who worked behind the first Metro train in India…

Yes he is none other than the great Mr  E. SREEDHARAN, the METRO MAN..

E. Sreedharan is from Palakkad district ,kerala,India. After completion of his secondary school he did his Civil engineering from government engineering college,Kakinada,Andhra Pradesh.

At the beginning of his career he worked as a lecturer,then after he joined Indian Engineering Service(IES) after clearing ESE-1953 conducted by the UPSC.

In December 1964, a cyclone washed away parts of Pamban bridge, that connected Rameswaram to mainland Tamilnadu. The Railways set a target of six months for the bridge to be repaired while Sreedharan's boss, under whose jurisdiction the bridge came, reduced it to three months. Sreedharan was put in-charge of the execution and he restored the bridge in just 46 days. The Railway minister's Award was given to him in recognition of this achievement..

•         In 1970 acted as a deputy chief engineer taking in charge of implementation, planning and design of Kolkata metro,first ever metro train of India.

•         Cochin Shipyard launched MV Rani Padmini, the first ship it built, when he was its Chairman and Managing Director (CMD), in 1981.

 After his retirement also government needed his service and appointed as chairman and managing director of Konkan Railways in 1990.

This Konkan railways project has many respects like the first major project in India to be undertaken on build operate transfer ( BOT) basis and the organization structure was also different from typical Indian railway set up.

The project had 93 tunnels along a length of 82 km and involved tunneling through soft soil. 

The project had 93 tunnels along a length of 82 km and involved tunneling through soft soil.

The total project covered 760 km and had over 150 bridges. 

Then after he was made as a managing director of Delhi Metro .

He was given the name The METRO man by media.

He had received many awards for his services.

And still after his retirement also his service continuing as principal advisor of Kochi  Metro Rail project and chief advisor for proposed Lucknow Metro Rail project.