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Metro Rail gets excellence award
Chennai Metro Rail Limited has received “National Project Excellence Award” by PMA-India summit for successful completion and commencement of passenger services for the phase 1 project.
Chennai
At the PMA-India summit held in New Delhi on Tuesday, Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog, presented the award to chief general manager Arvind Kumar Rai. CMRL has been presented the award for executing the project in an extremely challenging condition with marvellous engineering practices, keeping public safety always as a priority.
The 45-km first phase of the Chennai Metro Rail network is up and running with the last stretch of Washermenpet and AG-DMS was inaugurated in February 2019.
It has been a decade-long wait for Chennaiites to see the first phase completed after construction began in June 2009, covering seven stations from Koyambedu to Alandur over a distance of 10 km with operations starting in June 2015.
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