
E. Sreedharan
Indian engineer (born 1932)

Indian engineer (born 1932)
Elattuvalapil Sreedharan (born 12 June 1932) is an Indian engineer and politician from the Indian state of Kerala. He is known for leading and spearheading the construction of numerous transit projects in India, including the Konkan Railway and the Delhi Metro while he served as the managing director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) between 1995 and 2012. Known as the Metro Man, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2001, the Padma Vibhushan in 2008, the Chevalier de la Legion of Honour in 2005 by the Government of France and was named one of Asia's Heroes by Time magazine in 2003. Sreedharan was appointed by the former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to serve on the United Nations's High Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport (HLAG-ST) for a period of three years in 2015. He was also served as a Member of Railway Board, Govt of India. He is a member of Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board. He briefly served as a national executive council member of Bharatiya...
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