Mr.E.Sreedharan's life journey and his projects and successes.

1. A leader and his
successes

2. An 85 years old Indian
A civil engineer
An retired IES
A successful project manager
A great leader
A padmashri awardee
A padmabhushan awardee
Father of 21st century
infrastructure creation in India
His name was on the choices of
2017 presidential candidate
selection

6.  Born on 12th june 1932 in
karukaputhur, palakad district, kerela.
 Civil engineer graduate from Govt. Engg
College, Kakinada,Andhra pradesh presently
known as Jawaharlal Nehru Technological
University, Kakinada (JNTU Kakinada).
 E. Sreedharan and T.N.Seshan were classmates
at BEM High School and Victoria College in
Palakkad. Both selected at JNTU but he only
pursued , T.N.Seshan joined Madras Christian
College.

7.  For a short period, Sreedharan worked as a
lecturer in Civil engineering at the Government
Polytecnic, Kozhikode, Kerela.
 An year at the Bombay Port Trust as an apprentice.
 Subsequently joined the Indian Engineering
Services(IES)
 First assignment was in the Southern Railway as a
Probationary Assistant Engineer in December
1954.

8.  In December 1964, a cyclone washed away
parts of Pamban bridge at Rameswaram.
 The Railways set a target of six months for the
bridge , his boss reduced it further to three
months. Sreedharan was put in-charge of the
execution and he restored the bridge in just 46
days. The Railway minister's Award was given
to him in recognition of this achievement.

10.  which can be raised to let ships and barges pass
through

11.  1970 – 1975
 First ever metro in India
 As deputy chief engineer - Incharge
implementation, planning and design

12.  It was undergoing a phase of unproductivity.
The production of its first ship MV Rani
Padmini had been delayed for a long
period. When Sreedharan took over, he turned
the fortunes of the shipyard around and made
sure its first ship was built while he was its
chairman and managing director (CMD). In
1981, under Sreedharan's leadership, the
shipyard launched its first ship, the MV Rani
Padmini.

14.  Promoted as general manager-Western Railway in 1987
 In 1989 elevated to the post of Member Engineering, Railway Board and ex-officio
Secretary to the Government of India.
 On his retirement in June 1990, the Government made it clear it still needed his services
and he was appointed the CMD of konkan railway on contract in 1990 by the then
railway minister, George Fernandes.
 Under his stewardship, the company executed its mandate in seven years.
 The project was unique in many respects.
 It was the first major project in India to be undertaken on a BOT (Build-Operate-
Transfer) basis;
 The organisation structure was different from that of a typical Indian Railway set-up
 The total project covered 760 km from Mumbai (Roha) to Mangalore (Thokur)
 The project had 93 tunnels along a length of 823km and involved tunnelling through soft
soil.
 The project had over 1998 bridges (179 major &1819 minor).
 Distance reduced from 2041 km to 914 km.
 Completed in seven years (19th july 1990 – 26th jan 1998) with Rs.2780 crores
 That a public sector project could be completed without significant cost and time
overruns was considered an achievement by many.
 Konkan Railway has been covered in the Extreme Railways program by Chris
Tarrant as the one of the most difficult railway project to have been constructed in the
world.

15.  Divided by seven zones for completion - 760-kilometre line into zones
covering 100-120 kilometres each
 Each zone had separate chief engineers, revenue officer and SP for on-the-
spot decision and parallel progress
 Pre-qualified contractors
 He brought the best finance officers from the railways into his project
 Payment to contractors at right time
 Import of sophisticated equipment
 Incentives on completion of work
 Good network made for communication with fax and computers
 Weekly meeting on every monday
 First time in India, optical fibre cable used in tele-communication
network.
 First time in India, incremental launching method – building from one
end to other end.
 Installation of the reverse clocks

20.  Managing director in 1997
 Completed by their target date or before, and within
their respective budgets.
 Sreedharan was given the title of Metro Man by the
media.
 He was particularly known for isolating his projects
from political pressures and influences and winning
political commitments for fast execution of projects.
 Announced that he would retire by the end of 2005,
but his tenure was further extended to oversee the
completion of the second phase of Delhi Metro. After
16 years of service with the Delhi Metro, Sreedharan
retired from service on 31 December 2011

21.  218 km network across the NCR
 12th world’s longest in length 16th in ridership
 164 stations
 2.76 million passengers per day
 Punctuality >99%
 Mix (Underground, at-grade and elevated)
 Broad-gauge and standard-gauge
 3,000 trips daily (05:00 am to 23:30 pm)
 certified by the UN in 2011 as the first metro rail and
rail-based system in the world to get "carbon credits for
reducing greenhouse gas emissions" and helping in
reducing pollution levels in the city by 630,000 tonnes
every year

23.  Principal Advisor Kochi Metro Rail Project.
 Initially, the project faced hurdles when a controversy broke
out with the government announcing a global tender
process for Kochi Metro, rather than letting DMRC handle
the consultancy and project execution as Sreedharan and
DMRC had initially asked for.Vested interests in the
government have been alleged in this decision.
 However, several political parties came out in opposition of
the move, and backed Sreedharan's decision in enforcing
DMRC's role in the Kochi Metro, after which the
government reversed its stance.
 Kochi metro was finally unveiled on 17 June 2017 amidst
much celebrations. The unveiling of the metro was
considered a landmark event in India in terms of completion
time, control systems used and initiatives such as employing
transgender people, vertical gardening, respecting migrant
laborers and use of solar power.
 Completed in four years.

25.  The vertical garden adorning every sixth metro pillar entails the
use of 3,000 tonnes of compost from municipal waste.

26. About 80% (1000) of the staff employed at the KMRL is women.
Works in 24/7 in three shifts a day. 7/39 loco pilots are women.
First in employing 60 transgender officially.

28.  Chief advisor – Lucknow metro
 Upcoming
Jaipur – Rajasthan
Vishakapatnam – Andhra pradesh
Vijayawada – Andhra pradesh
Coimbatore - Tamilnadu

29.  Awarded the Padma Shri in 2001
 Named as one of Asia’s Heroes in 2003 by TIME
magazine
 French government’s Chevalier de la Légion
d’honneur in 2005
 Padma Vibhushan in 2008
 Recently Sreedharan was appointed by the UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to serve on the
United Nations's High Level Advisory Group on
Sustainable Transport (HLAG-ST) for a period of
three years.

30.  Integrity and team work
 Provide great service with social accountability
 Punctuality
 Be a virtuous doer
 Professional competence
 Create great culture, value and ethics
 Keep your team morale up