India, Feb. 18 -- The general consultant for the under-construction Metro 4 project has been sacked after shocking details emerged following Saturday's accident that claimed a life and injured three others in Mulund.

The extent of negligence cloaking the Metro 4 project can be gauged from the fact that the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), the government agency executing the project, had issued the consultant overseeing it more than 150 notices in the last two and a half years for deficiencies in various projects in its portfolio. Most of these notices related to work on Metro 4, being built by a consortium of Reliance Infrastructure and Astaldi SPA (RAJV) along with sub-contractor Milan Road Buildtech.

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