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Army officers plan Metro ride

Staff Reporter

They would also meet the MD, Sreedharan

NEW DELHI: An officer of the rank of major general and 10 of the rank of colonel will visit Delhi Metro on Tuesday to learn about management techniques that have resulted in the creation of one of the most modern metro systems in the world in record time.

Officers from the College of Defence Management, Hyderabad, will be spending an entire day on Delhi Metro interacting with officials and taking a round of the system to acquaint themselves with the way it works.

LDMC students

Students of the Long Defence Management Course (LMDC), the 10 officials who are either colonels in the Army, group captains in the Air Force or captains in the Navy, will be visiting Delhi Metro as the course curriculum involves tours of private, public and service organisations.

Led by the Commandant of the college who is a major general, the 10 officials will pay a one-day field visit to the Delhi Metro to learn about its management style.

Incidentally, the LDMC is pitched at directional and conceptual level and major subjects covered are human resource development, financial and logistics management, operations research, project management, statistics and management information system.

During the visit, they will first spend an hour with the Managing Director, E. Sreedharan, the man behind the challenging Delhi Metro and Konkan Railway projects.

Then the officials will be taken to the Central Secretariat metro station and from there they will board an underground train to get a feel of the system. On the way, too, the officers will be briefed about the handling and the functioning of the rolling stock, which once again compares well with the most modern in the world.

The next stopover will be at the Operational Control Centre (OCC) at Shastri Park, which is the brain of Delhi Metro rail network as it controls and supervises train operation, monitors passengers information and oversees the automatic fare collection system and the air-conditioning network.

The officials will also be informed about how the OCC also manages all ancillary facilities by monitoring station equipment like escalators, fans, pumps, lights, ventilation units, fire detection systems and access gates.

Then at Shastri Park Depot the officials will be given a feel of what goes on behind the scenes after the train operations end at night. They would be shown maintenance works and how overnight efforts go to ensure that clean trains operate safely the following day.

After the visit and in the culminating phase, the officials would carry out project studies to find solutions to the challenges being faced by the defence services and other public or private sector organisations. This would accord them an opportunity to validate management inputs taught at the college.

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