Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) Managing Director NVS Reddy said ‘pooja’ for laying foundation for construction of train maintenance and repair workshops at Uppal depot will be held on April 26. Mr Reddy said Metro Rail works at Uppal and Miyapur depots, Uppal pre-cast yard and pier (pillar) foundation works of stage-I (Nagole-Mettuguda stretch 8 km) are put on a fast track mode to make up for the initial delays of about six months in starting the works, a release from HMR said here today. The release said while the ground preparatory works on the recently handed over Miyapur depot land (104 acres) are going on at a brisk pace, excavation of loose soil, filling up and layer by layer consolidation of moorum have reached the required stage in some parts of the Uppal depot (100 acres).
Casting yard at Uppal (60 acres of leased land) is almost ready and casting of segments has commenced. A total of 28,000 segments, each segment with dimensions of about 30 feet X 10 feet and weighing about 35 tons will be required for erection of the flyover like Metro Rail viaduct for all the 3 corridors spanning over 71 km, the release said. About ten segments will normally be fixed between two pillars, which are at a distance of about 31 mtrs (100 feet). The construction strategy is to complete as many foundations as possible out of the 305 foundations of stage-I Nagole-Mettuguda stretch before monsoon, said Reddy. UNI