Elattuvalapil Sreedharan is an Indian engineer and politician from the Indian state of Kerala.
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Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari giving away the ICSI Corporate Governance Award to the Chairman of Metro, E. Sreedharan, organised by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, in New Delhi
Pamban Bridge
The 1,319 m (4,327 ft) long Konkan Railway bridge across the Zuari river in Goa.
Delhi Metro
Sreedharan calls on the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar in 2016
Model of Kochi Metro rail station
President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil presenting the Padma Vibhushan to Sreedharan at Civil Investiture-II Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on 10 May 2008Awards 4
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Mohammad Hamid AnsariAlso won Padma Shri in civil service
Manohar ParrikarAlso won CNN-News18 Indian of the Year
Sam PitrodaAlso won Om Prakash Bhasin Award
Rajendra K. PachauriAlso won Padma Vibhushan in science & engineering
Aditya PuriAlso won CNN-News18 Indian of the Year
Narinder Singh KapanyAlso won Padma Vibhushan in science & engineeringAbout this person
Elattuvalapil Sreedharan is an Indian engineer and politician from the Indian state of Kerala. He is credited with changing the face of public transport in India with his leadership in building 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 Janata Party, but later quit active politics in December 2021. He also worked as an advisor of Dhaka Metro authority which is called Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited under the Railway Ministry of Bangladesh.
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