Delhi Metro has debarred Gammon India , the construction company which is responsible for the Zamrudpur mishap that killed seven people, from participating in its projects for the next two years after finding its reply to the show-cause notice unsatisfactory.
The contractor has also been imposed a fine of Rs 5 crore by the Delhi Metro in an order issued on October 20.Gammon was issued a show-cause notice by Delhi Metro last year after it found that "design deficiency" was responsible for collapse of an under-construction bridge in the wee hours of July 12, 2009 at Zamrudpur in south Delhi.
The construction was part of the Central Secretariat-Badarpur corridor, which was partly opened to the public last month.In the notice issued to Gammon last July, Delhi Metro had asked the contracting company to explain why it should not be blacklisted for two years in the wake of the incident.
"The reply to the notice was found unsatisfactory, so the decision to debar the company was taken," a DMRC spokesman said.A four-member panel that went into the mishap fixed responsibility on Gammon for the accident and recommended the reconstruction or modification of four pier caps near the site.
In a 11-page report, the panel headed by IIT Professor A K Nagpal said there was a departure at site from the requirements of the design in the application of grout to the interface between the end plates of the steel strut and the face of the pier/pier cap to which the plates are attached.
"The drawings followed on site for construction of Pier 67 were advance copies and not authenticated by DMRC's design section. On enquiry, it was found that on occasions work commences without 'Good for Construction' signed drawings to avoid delayed construction," the report had said.
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