Question

Who is known as India's 'Metro Man'?
1. Indira Gandhi
2. Amartya Sen
3. JRD Tata
4. E Sreedharan

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : E Sreedharan

The correct answer is E Sreedharan.

• E Sreedharan is known as India’s Metro man.
  • Elattuvalapil Sreedharan is an Indian engineer, popularly known as the "Metro Man",
  • He is credited with changing the face of public transport in India with his leadership in building the Konkan Railway and the Delhi Metro.
  • He served as the managing director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation DMRC between 1995 and 2012.
  • He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2001.
  • He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2008.
  • He also received some international awards like the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2005 by the French government and was named one of Asia's Heroes by TIME magazine in 2003.
  • Sreedharan was appointed by the former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to serve on the United Nations's High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport (HLAG-ST) for a period of three years in 2015.

• Amartya Kumar Sen CH is an Indian economist and philosopher.
  • He is currently a Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University.
  • He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 and India's Bharat Ratna in 1999 for his work in welfare economics.
  • The German Publishers and Booksellers Association awarded him the 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his pioneering scholarship addressing issues of global justice and combating social inequality in education and healthcare.
• Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was an Indian aviator, industrialist, entrepreneur, and chairman of Tata Group.
  • In 1983, he was awarded the French Legion of Honour and in 1955 and 1992, he received two of India's highest civilian awards the Padma Vibhushan and the Bharat Ratna.