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Monday, July 13, 2009

Metro Man quits after 6 die, told to stay

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Six persons died Sunday morning when a portion of the elevated Metro rail under construction near Lady Shri Ram College in South Delhi collapsed, bringing down a huge mass of steel and concrete.

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation chief E Sreedharan put in his papers, shortly after taking moral responsibility for the accident. But Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit asked him to continue, saying, earlier, Metro ought to be careful.

The accident took place on the 20-km Central SecretariatBadarpur line, which runs mostly overground, through crowded residential and commercial areas like Lajpat Nagar, Kailash Colony and Nehru Place.

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Monday, October 20, 2008

Metro Mishap

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Massive concrete slabs being used in the construction of an overhead Metro rail stretch in east Delhi fell on a Blueline bus killing its driver and a construction worker early Sunday morning. Eleven people were injured.

The concrete pre-fabricated slabs called segments were being mounted between pillars that would eventually support tracks for the Metro trains to run in Laxmi Nagar when the accident happened.

Had it not been Sunday, the toll would have been much higher as the traffic on weekdays is extremely dense here, moving at a crawl most parts of the day.

Both the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and the Delhi government ordered separate inquiries. The Metro corporation also put on hold construction work across its network.

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