India facing dearth of civil engineers: Sreedharan

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 19:54

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New Delhi: DMRC chief Sreedharan today rued declining standards of civil engineering in the country and said "severe shortage" of efficient engineers has affected quality in infrastructure projects.

Sreedharan was speaking here after receiving the "Outstanding Civil Engineering Project Award" instituted by Institution of Civil Engineers.

"Civil Engineering standards, particularly in construction industry is not up to the mark. We are not being able to meet out country's infrastructural needs," the DMRC chief said.

"There is severe shortage of architectural and civil engineers. Where are they? Most of the good engineers either choose management or go for other remunerative fields."

Talking about the metro system in the city, he said DMRC's motto is to ensure "highest efficiency and best standard."

"We have been able to give the city a worldclass metro system, carrying 14 lakh passengers everyday," he said.

Speaking on the occasion, Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council Chairman Paul L Mitchell praised Shreedharan for "pushing the knowledge of civil engineering across the border."

He was referring to DMRC's help to countries such as Indonesia, Ireland and Sri Lanka to develop their own metro rail system.

PTI

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First Published: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 19:54

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D.N.MAKHIJA - DELHI-6,INDIA
the quality of the project depends as per the instructions given to the engineers by their seniors. we are not quality minded we are scam minded. the old monuments like taj mahal and red fort are stronger than the bridges made these days. in delhi the roads are broken or slope not(not in common wealth games areas) correct and garbage lying every where.no body cares. see najafgarh road and azad market old rohtak raod,shakoor basti road........................

that is why a hong kong based company said indian bureaucrats are most of the corrupts in the world zeenews.com/647534.html

the ex. chief vigilance commissioner said one third indians are uttery corrupt and fifty percent boderline, see zeenews.com/news653721.html 8/9/2010

a delhi high court judge said most of the babus in the govt. offices are corrupt. 21/6/2010zeenews

we have spent about rupees 33000 crores on common wealth games what benefits a common man is going to get from it. broken roads,garbage, choked sewer, traffic jam......................

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V.M.Puri - U.S.A
civil engineers of india are mostly looking for easy money by working in the govt. where normally the construction work, road work is done through contractors.they use their technology to the least and try to make money by unfair means.with the easy money lure then no interest is left in them to upgrade the technology part.
this is the normal state of affairs in the country all over. unless this menace of corruption is totally eradicated,nothing positive will come out.