Mangu Singh, Managing Director, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) indicates that challenges around land acquisition have slowed down the ongoing extension of metro rail network. Therefore, if the need arises again, the metro rail operator in the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) will not be averse to negotiating directly with private landowners.

Infrastructure major Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) has successfully achieved a major breakthrough by day-lighting the tunnel on the Dwarka-Najafgarh Metro corridor.

When the construction work of the Metro was started in Kolkata and later in Delhi, Indian engineers did not have the required experience to execute projects of such mammoth proportions. For the Delhi Metro, we had hired a consortium of foreign engineers who had supervised our first phase of construction

Kochi Metro Rail (KMRL) will commence its commercial operations on 18-km stretch from Aluva to Maharaja´s college by June 2016, a top official has said.

Delhi Metro´s Jahangirpuri to Samaypur Badli corridor extension and Badarpur to Faridabad extension will be launched in early 2015, DMRC MD Mangu Singh has said. He said the work on Kashmere Gate to ITO ´heritage´ corridor will be completed by December, 2015.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed recently between Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for the 9.41 km-long extension of metro line from Dilshad Garden

Thousands of home buyers on the Noida-Greater Noida stretch heaved a sigh of relief early this year when the 20.6-km Metro rail project between Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway was cleared by the Ministry of Urban Development.

A round 2.5 million passengers use the Delhi Metro everyday that has an operational distance of 190 km with an aim to touch 400 km by 2021. "Despite the metro expanding across cities, the pace of metro expansion is inadequate

Mangu Singh is the Managing Director of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation since 1 January 2012. Before assuming charge as the new Managing Director, Singh was working with DMRC as Director, Works. Since joining DMRC in 1997 as Chief Engineer, Singh has played a prominent role in the execution of many prestigious projects of the Corporation. All the major underground corridors built and commissioned by DMRC so far have been constructed under his astute leadership.