Caution! Metro at work.Alook at how Metro skips safety norms WHEN it comes to disregarding safety norms, the Delhi Metro has become more brazen, open and shameless, of late. On Friday, a 23- year- old man was injured when an iron beam fell on his foot at a Metro construction site. The incident prompted M AIL AIL 1. Angiocentric immunoproliferative lesion 2. Angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy T ODAY to visit some of the Metro construction sites, where it found safety measures safety measures, n.pl actions (e.g., use of glasses, face masks) taken to protect patients and office personnel from such known hazards as particles and aerosols from high-speed rotary instruments, mercury vapor, radiation exposure, anesthetic and do not exist at all. The criminal negligence is not only posing a risk to the lives of the poor labourers working at the construction sites but also to motorists passing the area. At the elevated Preet Vihar station, water leaks on motorists travelling on the road below ( picture 1). Near the Dhaula Kuan station on the Airport Metro Express Link, uprooted iron barricades have been flung dangerously on the sidewalks ( picture 2). Craters created by Metro construction work still pockmark pockmark /pock·mark/ (pok´mahrk) a depressed scar left by a pustule. pock·mark n. A pitlike scar that is left on the skin by smallpox or another eruptive disease. the road, making it difficult for motorists to drive. It's the same story at the Noida City Centre Metro station. Welding work is on in full swing. Sparks and small pieces of iron fall on to the road below in a shower, posing a hazard to motorists ( picture 3). That's not all. Construction material has blocked half carriageway carriageway Noun 1. Brit the part of a road along which traffic passes in one direction: the westbound carriageway of the M4 2. . There are no signages warning motorists to drive slow. On the other carriageway, a dozer clearing a mountain of dust vied with traffic for space. Dust was flying all around, reducing visibility considerably. Near another construction site in Noida, earth- moving vehicles have elbowed out two- wheelers and cars from the road passing below the Metro line ( picture 4). This is only expected from an organisation which, even six months after a pillar collapsed due to the negligence of contractor Gammon India and the chief engineer ( design), has taken no action against them. Copyright 2009 India Today Group. All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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