All my Engineering friends especially Civil and Mechanical Engineers who had gained valuable work experience may look out for booming careers in Metro rail projects. In the next 10 to 15years time GOI had ambitiously planned many METRO projects for cities that have more than 2Million population.
Last decade had seen the best phase in construction sector as many Highways and Buildings projects were executed with Public-Private partnerships. But post global economic slowdown after 2012 many Highway projects were cancelled or kept on hold due to lack of funding clubbed with many other regional issues.
However Delhi metro's success had provided an opportunity to explore metro rail projects scope in other cities of India. This segment had opened up many opportunities to engineering professional in India. Currently Delhi Phase III is underway, Hyderabad Phase I is in advance stage, Chennai Phase I 12Km stretch is already opened for public and rest of the work is advance stage, Lucknow Metro, Kochi, Vijayawada, Jaipur and other major cities are also executing metro projects. Since Roads and Buildings projects are not gaining pace it is always better to try to challenge ourselves to get into Metro projects. It may not be easy to get into these projects easily but once you are into this sector your career growth is secured for the next 20 to 25 years.
Civil Engineers have a major edge with lot of scope for Architects, Urban planners, Surveyors, QC Engineers and other related segments in Civil Engineering.
Mechanical & Electrical Engineers too have great scope in Mechanical Electrical Plumbing (M E P) departments of all metro projects with considerable opportunities for Environmental, IT, Project Management professionals also.
Majority of the Metro projects are bagged by L & T along with MNCs like RITES, IL & FS, NCC, IVRCL, Alstom, SUCG, CRTG etc are involved directly and indirectly in project execution.
Freshers you can plan your careers to suit this booming sector.
All the construction segment professionals who had gone through tough phase due to economic slow down should not loose their courage as there is a hope that market rebounds to drive construction segment.
ALL THE BEST...Keeping doing good work
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