NEW DELHI (Metro Rail News): For all the Chief Administrative Officers (Construction) of Indian Railways, the NCRTC held a workshop on “Efficient Project Management” in the presence of Shri Anil Kumar Lahoti, Chairman & CEO, and Shri Roop Narayan Sunkar, Member Infrastructure, Railway Board. In addition, the Managing Director, Shri Vinay Kumar Singh, Directors, and other senior NCRTC personnel presented several helpful, informative sessions throughout the workshop for information-sharing.
In his remarks to the group, Shri Lahoti praised the efforts of team NCRTC for completing such a complex, extensive infrastructure project in only four years, putting all the sub-systems in place, and being prepared to commission the Priority Section while utilizing several cutting-edge technologies.
He further added that, it is laudable that the 82-km-long Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor is being built at such a fast rate despite the difficulties of being in a crowded metropolitan environment. In addition, he noted that it is remarkable how a project implementation organization with the efficiency of NCRTC could be created from scratch in such a short amount of time.
Member Infrastructure Shri Sunkar appreciated the working style of team NCRTC, under the leadership of Shri Vinay Kumar Singh, taking every challenge at the sites head-on and coming up with innovative solutions. He praised how team NCRTC is carrying out such heavy construction activities, overcoming numerous technical challenges, not only managing a large number of stakeholders but making them understand the complexities of the project and taking them along.
Shri Vinay Kumar Singh took a session to explain the overall implementation strategy, focusing on pre-emptive risk identification and mitigation. He emphasized the importance of the involvement of high-level officers from the project planning stage itself.
Team NCRTC covered several other aspects of learnings in the timely implementation of the country’s first Regional Rail Project (Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut) as well, including project management & monitoring tools (SPEED), new-age track system, which have set new benchmarks for infrastructure and transport projects across the country.
The conference was followed by the field visit to some of the critical sites of the RRTS project in Delhi and witnessing the ongoing service trials of the RAPIDX services. During the visit, Team NCRTC gave the esteemed participants an overview of the installation of various sub-systems and the latest technologies for the transformative mobility solution. The participants were all praised for the smooth ride experience on the new-age RAPIDX trainsets. They also appreciated the station design and the precast track system adopted by NCRTC.
