Kochi Metro works to go full steam in '14: Sreedharan

Seventy five per cent of Kochi metro rail pillars and 50 per cent of the work on metro stations would be completed in 2014, making it the busiest working season for DMRC, the agency's Principal Advisor E. Sreedharan has said.

He was replying to questions posed by The Hindu on the milestones the metro will cover in 2014. (There would be approximately 1,200 pillars in the 25-km-long Aluva-Pettah metro alignment. As per DMRC's plan, the project is scheduled to be commissioned in 2016, three years since work began in June 2013.)

The super structure (comprising pier caps and girders) will also be launched at many places, paving the way for commencing track-linking work by November-December 2014, Mr. Sreedharan said.

The Hindu