Biz students take leaf out of Delhi Metro book

New Delhi, Jan 2: Delhi Metro Rail Corporations's "success story" has led students of top management schools in the world like the Harvard University, the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Wharton School to take "a leaf out of its book".

Inspired by DMRC's management and project execution techniques, which has contributed in large part to the completion of Phase-I of the project before schedule and within the budgeted cost, has attracted the attention of these top business schools of the world, who are using their study trips to India to gain valuable management tips from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.

Thirty-six students from the Wharton School under the University of Pennsylvania visited the Delhi Metro last week to converse themselves with techniques used by the DMRC to construct the world-class Metro in a congested city like Delhi two years and nine months ahead of schedule, and that too within the budgeted cost, DMRC sources said.

The DMRC informed them the management philosophy of DMRC - ''time is money'' - is based on the cornerstones of punctuality, commitment to work and professional competence.

Close on the heels of management students of the Wharton school, students from the John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business will, over the next few days, visit the Delhi Metro.

In the past too, teams from the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, the Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Management, the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force have focused on Delhi Metro to study the various management techniques employed by the DMRC in construction of its phase one.

UNI