The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s (DMRC) Principal Advisor E. Sreedharan arrived in Kochi on Tuesday and reviewed the stalemate caused by the fortnight-long quarry strike that was called off on Monday.
“Civil works resumed by noon, after a few lorry loads of granite chips arrived at work sites. Normal work is likely to resume in two or three days,” DMRC sources said. In the meantime, Chief Minister Ommen Chandy is learnt to have apprised Union Urban Development Minister Venkiah Naidu the need to convey to the DMRC the need to tell metro’s civil contractors to speed up their works, so that all civil works are over by the October 2015 deadline.
DMRC sources said that an all-out effort was being made to complete the metro’s Aluva-Maharaja’s College viaduct by October. Completing work on a few metro stations and in a couple of places where land has not been handed over so far might take a couple of more months, they said.
Effort on to complete first stretch of viaduct.
