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InteractIon COVER STORY Powered by Sowmyan Ramakrishnan, Chairman, Tata Projects and Kumar Keshav, MD, Lucknow Metro with Tata Projects team - at the inauguration of Tunnel Boring Machine at Lucknow Metro We have to our credit the “firsts” for various Metro Corporations across India Tata Projects is one of the fastest growing and most admired infrastructure companies in India. It has expertise in executing large and complex industrial and urban infrastructure projects.The Company provides turnkey end to end solutions to set up power generation plants, power transmission & distribution systems, fully integrated rail & metro systems, commercial buildings & airports, chemical process plants, water and waste water management solutions, complete mining and metal purification systems. SHAIBAL ROY, BUSINESS UNIT HEAD (METRO, TUNNELS & WATERWAYS)– URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE, TATA PROJECTS spoke to CONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITIES on the current scenario and the opportunities in the metro space. Tell us about the role being currently What are the opportunities you are clash in the ROW and therefore alter the played by your frm in the metro rail space? seeking in the metro space going forward? alignment slightly with the help of client to Which are the metro projects in which you Tell us of the metro projects in which you avoid unnecessary stalemate. We are further are present, their current status, scope of are looking to contribute? using high volume of pre-cast elements as work and cost, timeline for completion? India is poised at such a juncture that every part of our construction. Our casting yard We have to our credit the “frsts” for various city has as part of their development plan is fully mechanised using steam curing as a Metro Corporations across India. For a mass transit system. We are focussing norm and the entire handling of concrete DMRC we have their frst longest elevated to contribute to the growth story of each right from production to casting is fully corridor of 9 km elevated viaduct and 9 city as the projects unfolds. At this point mechanised. stations for a value above `650 Cr of which Metros are planned in Delhi Ph-IV, Noida, we have completed so far close to 75 per Varanasi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Bhopal Future outlook for the industry and from cent of the works and the project is going & Indore, Guwahati, Mumbai, Vizag, a company perspective. on-time to be completed by Oct’17/ Nov’17 Bangalore, Kozhikode, Trivandrum and Being the second most populous country as per the contract. Kochi Metro and Tata Projects as a major and high density of population in the metro We recently bagged one of the longest player Pan-India across all sectors would cities as also in Tier-2 cities, the inclusion of elevated stretches of 7km viaduct and 7 also be trying for Metros in each of the Metro in the city development plans by the stations for Ahmedabad Metro MEGA above cities. Urban Local Bodies is not an option but a for a value of `721 Cr and the project is mandatory requirement for our nation. scheduled to be completed around Jul’19/ Detail us with regards to the latest Tis provides a long-term pipeline from a Aug’19. In the underground Metro space, we technologies like construction equipment, business perspective to companies like us have the frst underground Metro stretch for software, building materials etc your and help us devise a long-term strategy for LMRC at Lucknow for `1190 Cr consisting company has used in metro rail projects. the Metro sector. We are very positive about 3.8km TBM tunnel and 3 underground Our company is using BIM (Building the same. Te government needs to ensure stations. We are also constructing the Information Modelling) as part of our the funding and the ROW is in place to stop frst underground Metro for MMRC for design and planning for the Metro projects. any hindrance during execution paving way Mumbai Line-3 having a value of `2830 Tis technology has come very handy for for more such projects to be realistically Cr. us to overcome the difculty of impeding rolled out as planned. u 52 construction opportunities|aPrIL 2017