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Japan honours Delhi Metro with ‘Outstanding Civil Engineering Award’

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<strong>The Delhi Metro's Phase I, II and III projects have been awarded with the prestigious Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE)'s 'Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award' for the year 2020. The JSCE termed the Delhi Metro’s project as 'High-Quality Infrastructure Development Project'.<br />
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The JSCE in its award note mentioned that the Delhi Metro's projects have brought awareness of safety and efficiency at construction sites in India and provided residents with safe, secure and comfortable transportation. This award is given to highly selective showcasing projects in the development of civil engineering technology across the world.<br />
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The Delhi Metro's civil engineering achievements in the past two decades have received global recognition and have been appreciated by prominent international organizations. Earlier, the Delhi Metro’s implementation of Phase – I was rated 'Excellent' in a post evaluation study conducted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The study rated Delhi Metro’s project execution capability at ‘3’, which is the highest possible grade indicating that the performance of DMRC was excellent.<br />
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The Delhi Metro since its inception has been closely associated with Japan. The JICA has supported Delhi Metro’s all Phases including the ongoing Phase – IV project by providing not only smoothest financial support but with excellent value-added activities such as knowledge assistance by introducing Japanese innovative technologies and mindset of safety and innovation, unique work culture, technical cooperation and capacity building of DMRC. The unstinted support from Japan, JICA including India Office has helped Delhi Metro in becoming a Shining Example globally in the field of urban mass transit.</p>

IN Bureau

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