AAI ATC Junior Executive 25 Mar 2021 Shift 3 Paper
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Question Numbers: 57-60
Read the given passage and answer the following questions.
It’s hard to imagine urban India without its metro trains, the giant aluminium snakes sliding above and below the grounds of bustling metropolises, carrying in its bellies India’s teeming millions. Delhi has the largest network, 389 kilometres and 285 stations. Mumbai, which will build 235 km by 2025, is close on its heels. Ten other Indian cities have metros, 15 more have it in various stages of completion. And it’s clear why. An Indian city feels it has arrived only when it has a metro rail, the fastest, most economical and non-polluting mass rapid transport solution. Most of the credit for this urban engineering marvel being replicated across India goes to one engineer, E Sreedharan, popularly known as ‘Metro Man’.
Sreedharan’s first brush with fame was repairing the Pamban bridge in 1963, parts of which had been washed away in a cyclone. The railways estimated it would take six months to repair the sole link between mainland India and Rameshwaram. Sreedharan did it in just 46 days. A legend was born. But significant as it was, even this wasn’t a turning point in his life. “I had a very ordinary, uneventful career in the Indian Railways from December 1954 to June 1990. No doubt, restoration of the Pamban bridge gave me an excellent opportunity to demonstrate my technical and organisational competence. But it wasn’t a turning point in my career”.
What was it then? Sreedharan says it was a stirring article in Reader’s Digest, which highlighted the need for ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking when faced with a major challenge. He was then Member (Engineering) on the Railway Board in 1990. It so happened that the senior railway engineer, in what seemed like the last phase of his career, was facing what appeared to be an insurmountable challenge. Railways minister George Fernandes had mentioned his dream project, a Mumbai to Mangalore railway line that would complete India’s last great missing rail link.
Based on your reading of the passage answer the following questions by choosing the best option.
Read the given passage and answer the following questions.
It’s hard to imagine urban India without its metro trains, the giant aluminium snakes sliding above and below the grounds of bustling metropolises, carrying in its bellies India’s teeming millions. Delhi has the largest network, 389 kilometres and 285 stations. Mumbai, which will build 235 km by 2025, is close on its heels. Ten other Indian cities have metros, 15 more have it in various stages of completion. And it’s clear why. An Indian city feels it has arrived only when it has a metro rail, the fastest, most economical and non-polluting mass rapid transport solution. Most of the credit for this urban engineering marvel being replicated across India goes to one engineer, E Sreedharan, popularly known as ‘Metro Man’.
Sreedharan’s first brush with fame was repairing the Pamban bridge in 1963, parts of which had been washed away in a cyclone. The railways estimated it would take six months to repair the sole link between mainland India and Rameshwaram. Sreedharan did it in just 46 days. A legend was born. But significant as it was, even this wasn’t a turning point in his life. “I had a very ordinary, uneventful career in the Indian Railways from December 1954 to June 1990. No doubt, restoration of the Pamban bridge gave me an excellent opportunity to demonstrate my technical and organisational competence. But it wasn’t a turning point in my career”.
What was it then? Sreedharan says it was a stirring article in Reader’s Digest, which highlighted the need for ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking when faced with a major challenge. He was then Member (Engineering) on the Railway Board in 1990. It so happened that the senior railway engineer, in what seemed like the last phase of his career, was facing what appeared to be an insurmountable challenge. Railways minister George Fernandes had mentioned his dream project, a Mumbai to Mangalore railway line that would complete India’s last great missing rail link.
Based on your reading of the passage answer the following questions by choosing the best option.
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