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I can understand the excuse that the contractor was ill equipped...but what about the supervisors??

What were they doing? arent they paid to make sure that there are no delays? or raise alarm when things are getting bad?

If they are not well equipped what is the assurance that they will do the work correct?

What is the backup for this contractor and does the contract have a clause at all about pull out or terminate the contract?

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This is Bangalores Much needed, most expensive and most prominent peice of infrastructure. We cannot afford to take it on like a flyover project. We need a monitoring commitee. If delays are imminent then there is nothing we can do, but transparency can stop a lot of delays.

We need a team with citizens, central Govt, State Govt and Media monitoring the Metro and seeing exactly what goes wrong and where it goes wrong to be able to fix it.

This metro is sometime we should use in our lifetime!

Narayan Gopalan
User Interaction Designer
Bangalore

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Monitoring and finding mistakes (genuine) are two different things.

Monitoring gives the remedies-in this case how to bring back the time line.

1.0 Change in design

2.0 Reducing scope of work

3.0 Priotizing the crash activities i.e. reducing the no of them and taking them as per the Contractor's resources.

4.0 Giving the less important parts to especialist agencies simultaneouly e.g. only machinery suppliers, utility shifting

5.0 Resorting to inhouse (done by the employer-through its own resources) e.g. building service /diversion roads-as these are temporary the quality is short requirement.

Off-course any overhead achieved or the financial figure goes above the contract amount than the clauses of the signed contract come in force e.g. The main contractor has to pay, and the employing agency is also responsible as they are admitting that the Procurement of the Contractor does not have the required quality resources.

Regarding liability of supervisors for the delay, you cannot fine the conductor of a Train for a mishap or delay.

nJ

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I am terrified each time our CM-in-a-hurry announces all these mega road projects that go from one end of town to another.   

There seems to be very little understanding of basic project management principles in any of these projects.  Else there is no way that we can discover 4 months before MG Road is supposed to be done that we are late by 15 more months.  Magic boxes that were meant to get done in 72 hours took 72 days to get done - the CBI junction one took about 7 months to get done.   Sad to say this - but this is plain and simple incompetence.

Schedules cannot be built just on best case assumptions.  Magic boxes can be built in 72 hours (in Germany they assemble steel flyovers in less than 24 hrs) assuming no problems while digging, enough pre-cast blocks are there, no rains (not valid in July/Aug), enough equipment, etc etc.  But these cannot be assumed - they have to also be planned. 

Maybe some of the Infy Project Managers who go on sabbatical can be drafted in to manage the Metro schedule :). 

Srivathsa

 

 

 

 

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Wht Iam really worried is they have literally stopped updating thier website too...the tenders and the newsletter...i donno what is happening...they have dug up few patches near basavanagudi and jayanagar afraid they will bring down the remaing trees there too...

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