Witness History
Witness History
The man who got Delhi on track
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November 21, 2019
9 minutes
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India's capital city built a brand new mass transit system to tackle its traffic jams and air pollution. The first section of the Delhi Metro was opened to the public in 2002. E Sreedharan was managing director of the Metro project and he's been speaking to Prabhat Pandey about the challenges he faced.
Photo: the inside of a Delhi Metro carriage. Credit: Getty Images.