LMRC bags Dun & Bradstreet Infra Award-2017
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) has won the Dun & Bradstreet Infra Award-2017 in the metro rail category for completing and commissioning the 8.5 km “priority corridor” of Phase 1A in record time of less than three years.
The Dun & Bradstreet is a multinational firm that acknowledges the importance of infrastructure as a critical driver of the economy and has been involved in tracking the progress of this sector over the past few years.
The award was received by Pushpa Bellani, company secretary, Lucknow Metro at a function in Mumbai on Thursday in the presence of Union minister Nitin Gadkari.
Speaking about it, managing director, Lucknow Metro Kumar Keshav, said: “I am delighted that our hard work and dedication is being recognised at all levels. This is the result of great team work which has helped us achieve such a milestone.”
The Lucknow Metro has earned the distinction of being the fastest ever metro project construction and execution in the country so far.
Earlier on August 31, the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) – one of the apex bodies in India to rate and certify a system a ‘green’ system – certified Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) a ‘green metro rail system’.
It awarded platinum certificates to all its metro stations between Transport Nagar and Charbagh.
In March 2016, Lucknow Metro was adjudged the best metro project for ‘excellence in innovative designs’ at the 5th Annual Metro Rail India Summit, 2016 in New Delhi.
ALSTOM CEO VISITS LUCKNOW METRO
Henri Poupart-Lafarge, chairman and chief executive officer of Alstom that provided the coaches of Lucknow metro visited the Transport Nagar metro depot and observed the functioning of the city’s newest transport facility.
Lafarge along with Mahendra Kumar (director, operations) and others visited the workshopcum-inspection bay line at the depot. Kumar explained Lafarge about the characteristics of the state-of-the-art ‘green’ depot’ and the facilities available there. He also planted a sapling inside the Transport Nagar depot.
He then took a metro ride from Transport Nagar Metro to Alambagh. Later, Lafarge visited the depot control centre (DCC) and saw the facilities developed by Lucknow Metro for the software development centre (SDC) and the operations control centre.