The Managing Director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), Mr. Mangu Singh, has today been conferred with the degree of honorary doctorate by a university in recognition of his outstanding work and leadership in the field of Metro technology in India.
The degree was conferred to Mr. Singh in a convocation ceremony at Noida by the Amity University, Uttar Pradesh. The University greatly appreciated the inspirational leadership of Mr. Singh and commended his pioneering strategies which have been fundamental to the rapid growth and unprecedented success of DMRC.
Mr. Singh has contributed greatly in the project implementation of Metro in Delhi and Kolkata and has been responsible for bringing revolutionary changes in the execution of large Metro engineering projects (civil) within tight deadlines and budget and is considered the foremost tunneling expert and is also the President of the Tunneling Association of India (TAI).
He has introduced new technologies and innovative methods of construction of Metro tunnels and structures to achieve economy, safety, quality and speed of construction. The credit for using Shield Tunnel Boring Machines and introducing New Austrian Tunneling Method (NATM) for the first time in the country goes to Mr. Singh.
In addition, he has successfully headed the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects of Delhi Metro, the only such successful project in the Railway Transportation sector in the world. He has been instrumental in preparing the Master Plan and Detailed Project Reports for Metro system in other cities of the country like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Kochi, Jaipur, Ludhiana and Ahmedabad.
His experience includes Rail based transportation projects, its planning & execution, procurement of works and services for Mega Projects on Design and Build Contracts basis, handling multilateral funding agencies, development of bid documents for Metro Projects on PPP basis, management of Concession contracts and CDM projects.
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