Dr. Elattuvalapil Sreedharan- Managing Director, Delhi Metro
Dr. E. Sreedharan डा. ई. श्रीधरन ഡോക്ടര് ഇ. ശ്രീധരന് He was born on 12 June 1932 in Palakkad district, Kerala. He is an Indian technocrat, known for completing both the Konkan Railway and Delhi Metro projects within budget and ahead of schedule. Starting of Life: E. Sreedharan is from Karukaputhoor in Palaghat district of Kerala of India. His surname Ellatuvalapil belongs to the famous Tharavad in this part of Kerala. He had been a classmate of T. N. Seshan, the former Chief Election Commissioner of India in school. He later studied at the Victoria College in Palghat and then completed his Engineering from the Government Engineering College, Kakinada. After serving as a lecturer in Civil engineering at the Kerala Polytechnic in Kozhikode for a short period and a year at the Bombay Port Trust as an apprentice, he joined the Indian Engineering Service in Railways. This was through a nation-wide selection procedure and his first assignment was in the Southern Railway as an Assistant En...