Kumar Keshav, Managing Director, LMRC, today upon his arrival from France directly rushed to the incident site at Alambagh Bus Stand Metro where team of officials from LMRC and L&T’s full team were present. Managing Director was closely monitoring the incident that happened on 17th April and was in constant touch with LMRC team undertaking restoration measures.

Taking serious note of the accident that happened at the site on 17.04.2016, the Managing Director inspected the civil construction at the station. He had already issued instructions to L&T’s team and LMRC officials to withhold any further work till a complete ‘Safety Audit’ of works at site is undertaken and all steps taken to avoid any such incident in future.

Safety Audit is presently in progress under supervision of LMRC Safety team with Safety Expert of General Consultants and L&T Engineers. L&T officials explained the Managing Director the safety and precautionary measures which have been adopted by them in the aftermath of the incident.

The Managing Director expressed his extreme dis-satisfaction to L&T higher officials visiting from head office and directed them to take immediate action to ensure all safety measures to avoid such incidents. He has already instructed L&T higher officials to immediately shift their Safety In-charge and site engineer under whose supervision the work at Alambagh Bus Metro Station was in progress to communicate strong message to the whole team that safety during construction is not to be compromised at any cost.

Inspecting the work that had been done for the cross-arm at the station where the accident happened, he instructed the L&T’s team to carry out a detailed ‘safety audit’ of the work for the rest couple of days without disturbing the area.

He asked the authorities to resume the work for the affected site only after the ‘safety audit’. A three member Director level inquiry committee already constituted as per his instructions is investigating into the causes of the incident and is expected to submit its report in the first week of May, 2016.
After visiting the site, Shri Keshav rushed to the KGMC Trauma Centre to meet the injured worker. He spoke to the worker, sympathised him and assured all necessary medical and monetary help to the person. He asked the L&T personnel to take extra care of the patient round the clock in the hospital and apprise him about his improvement on a regular basis. The patient has now started to walk on his own and it is expected that he will be relieved from the hospital very soon.

L&T has also assured that they are providing all necessary medical and compensatory help to the persons who were injured in the incident.

In the afternoon, a detailed meeting was also held by the Managing Director in his office with L&T officials and LMRC team to review the detailed project methodology of construction along with the safety norms and checks to be followed during Metro construction.