Sunday, 01 January 2012: ‘Metro Man’ E Sreedharan handed over the baton to his colleague Mangu Singh after a momentous 16-year tenure as Managing Director of Delhi Metro during which he constructed and spread the network far and wide across the National Capital Region.79-year-old Sreedharan, architect of the Konkan Railway project who joined the Delhi Metro in 1995, retired after 16 years of service in the Delhi Metro. His successor Singh has worked closely with him during the construction of the Metro network in the capital.
The ‘Metro Man’, who joined the Indian Railways in 1953, flew in from Chennai this evening and formally handed over the charge to Singh, 56, who oversaw the high-speed Airport Metro Express Corridor, at a brief ceremony at the ‘Metro Bhawan’.
