Safety top priority in Hyd Metro construction: K T Rama Rao

Telangana Minister for IT, Municipal Administration and Panchayati Raj K T Rama Rao today said safety should be the top priority in the execution of the ongoing Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) project.
Rao, who held a review meeting on progress of the work at Metro Bhavan here, mentioned the fly-over collapse in Kolkata and emphasised need to stick to the safety standards to avoid such accidents.
Appreciating the quality of construction of L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad (L&TMRHL, which is executing the project), the Minister instructed its engineers to take additional precautionary measures to ensure safety of citizens during the construction.

He asked HMR Managing Director N V S Reddy to personally monitor the safety measures taken by L&TMRHL.
While reviewing the overbridge work in Malakpet, Rao advised Reddy to conduct a joint inspection with the Hyderabad police commissioner and ensure free traffic flow during the construction period.
L&TMRHL and HMRL should jointly ensure that the project is completed as per the schedule, Rao said.

L&TMRHL Managing Director and Chief Executive V B Gadgil also attended the meeting.
A total of 551 trips are operated on the Line-6 per day.
DMRC will write to the concerned power discom for power supply related problems, he said.

Besides, power supply failure Metro services have also been hit due to other reasons such as track circuit failure.
"The recent disruption in Blue Line due to track circuit failure at Dwarka was rectified but it recurred again and then it was replaced. It has been sent for testing to find out the fault," Sharma said.
He said that the recent incident of fire in a Metro coach was found to be a "design fault" related to connector.
Struggling with technical snags, Delhi Metro is also hard pressed as it has a small window of 2 hours for maintenance as tracks are open for moving maintenance equipment at 1.30 AM and leave tracks before 4.30 AM when train movements start, he added.