Board of Directors of MMC Corporation Berhad visited, MRT Putrajaya Line Phase 1. The visit was specifically arranged for the Board members before it opens to the public scheduled to be in June 2022.
Presence during the visit were, Datuk Seri Tajuddin Atan, Group Chairman, Dato’ Sri Che Khalib Mohamad Noh, Group Managing Director, Dato’ Abdul Hamid Sh Mohamad, Datuk Ooi Teck Huat, Dato’ Siti Halimah Ismail and Dato’ Ir Jamaludin Osman. The delegation was greeted by Adil Putra Ahmad, Project Director of MMC Gamuda KVMRT, Amir Malik Faeiz, Deputy Project Director, Elevated Section of MMC Gamuda KVMRT, Asroll Mansor, Deputy Systems Director of MMC Gamuda KVMRT and Mohd Razin Ghazali, Chief Operating Officer MMC Technical and Engineering.
During the visit, the Board members were taken for a train ride from the elevated Sri Damansara Sentral Station to Kampung Batu Station followed by a visit to one of the underground stations at Sentul Barat Station.
The remainder of the Putrajaya MRT line is scheduled to become operational under Phase Two in January 2023, with the overall construction progress currently at 97.9% as end of March 2022.
The Putrajaya Line, one of the biggest transport infrastructure constructions in Malaysia, will serve a corridor with a population of around two million people stretching from Kwasa Damansara, a new township development in northwest Kuala Lumpur and its southern suburbs, to Putrajaya, Malaysia’s federal administrative centre. The alignment will have a length of 52.2km, consisting of 38.7km of elevated tracks and 13.5km running through underground tunnels. It will have 33 operational stations of which 24 are elevated and 9 underground.