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PUNE (Metro Rail News): For the underground section of the Pune Metro rail project, the tunnel being excavated as progressed beyond the Shivajinagar station, despite a 25 per cent dip in work productivity due to the lockdown.
MahaMetro officials accused the decrease in work efficiency due to a lack of workers at the construction site for over a month. The tunnelling work is being performed in a single shift that had started last Dec, as opposed to the earlier multiple shifts.
A MahaMetro official said that in spite of the difficulties, the underground tunnel has progressed. Of the 2 tunnel-boring machines, the one has passed 200 metres away from Shivajinagar station where the other is 20 metres past the location.
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The machines will reach the Civil Court by Simla office chowk & CoEP ground. Currently, only one-thousand workers are on duty at the many Metro sites across the city and before lockdown, it was 2,800.
MahaMetro added they have approached the respective district administrations in Bihar & Madhya Pradesh when workers showed a desire to return to Pune. Also, it has expedited viaduct and pillar work on some crucial stretches, RTO & Pune railway station and Paud Phata & Paud Road.
An official stated that work on the depots also at the College of Agriculture & Vanaz, is also progressing steadily.
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