Project Management

End Term– PGP-TERM IV- 2020-21

Note: Take home exam. Assumptions to be clearly mentioned

Total Marks: 45, Time: 150 minutes

1. Consider yourself as the project manager who has been assigned the task on February 21st, 2020 of
planning and then managing “Possible COVID 19 in Kerala” as the first 3 patience’s detected the
disease were from Kerala. The central and state Government is closely monitoring the statements by
health ministry, Home ministry and ICMR. -(2+2+8+3=15 marks)

a) Develop the scope statement of the COVID 19 disaster management project?

b) Indicate the various essential information which you need to seek from appropriate organization
before stating detailed plans?
c) Subsequently, develop the WBS of the project atleast level 0, 1, 2, 3)?
d) Use heat map to identify the various risk while carrying out project and also your potential
response plan?

2. Consider the below provided Edinburgh Tram Case and respond to the questions at the end:

As part of an extension to the Edinburgh Tram system, Edinburgh Council have commissioned the
construction of a new Tram Planning Office. This will be a relatively straightforward steel framed
office building, 3 storeys in height. The design of the building has been completed and the land has
been acquired. As Project Manager, you are responsible for planning the construction phase of the
project and for overseeing it’s completion. The detailed network diagram is presented in Figure. These
estimated durations together with the daily costs for the normal methods of operation are included in
Table. Materials costs are not included since these are expected to remain the same regardless of how
the project is executed. As project managers you are now request to do the following:
-- (3+3+3+3+8=20 marks)

(i) Identify the critical path and the expected duration of the project completion. The client intends to
know the chance of completion of project by the expected duration.
(ii) Develop Gantt Chart of the indicated project?
(iii) Would you like to lead this project? Justify various aspects of your decision
(iv) To the nearest whole day calculate the target duration for the construction of the tram planning
office building, allowing for a 95% probability of on time completion. This is the new duration
that will be agreed with the client for project handover, and will therefore become the contractual
obligation that must be met.
 Most
Activity Optimistic Likely Pessimistic
Activity Description
Id. Days (do) Days Days (dp)
(dm)

A Clear Site 8 10 12
B Install Drainage 7 10 19
C Install Piled Foundation 8 15 22
D Construct Steel Frame 8 12 22
Place Precast Concrete
E 8 9 16
Floor Slabs
F Install Roof Finishes 6 10 20
Attach External Cladding
G 6 8 10
Panels
H Install Internal Partitions 8 10 12
I Install Electricity Services 12 15 24
Install Drainage and Water
J 8 12 22
Services
K Install Raised Floor 8 20 26
L Install Suspended Ceiling 10 14 24
Commission, Clean & Hand
M 8 10 12
Over
 (v) The tasks ‘Install Drainage’ and ‘Install Piled Foundations’ both require the use of 2 Excavators.
Upon completing the initial planning phase, it has been determined that the Subcontractor
responsible for delivering these two tasks has only priced for, and only has access to just 2
excavators for the duration of their involvement with the project. You must now check the initial
plan to determine whether this resource constraint will cause a problem, and if it does, you are
required to re-plan the project logic and complete a revised network analysis and Gantt chart that
accommodates the resource constraint. As project manager you are expected to also report the
consequence that this resource constraint has upon the overall duration of the project and upon the
target duration previously determined in normal as well probability of 95% completion.

3. Please refer to the article attached on “Mumbai Metro Rail Project” given below:
a. Identify the various reasons of project failure?
b. If you were project manager, how would you have dealt with this situation so that the damage to
the project reduced still considering the social, environmental and economic aspects of project?
Respond with proper justification for your suggested action plan. -- (2+8=10 marks)

Aarey to Kanjurmarg in 9 yrs — Mumbai Metro car shed to still take over
2 yrs if all goes well

CM Thackeray has shifted the car shed for Mumbai’s costliest metro rail out of Aarey Colony. But it took
years of political back and forth for the project to reach Kanjurmarg.
MANASI PHADKE 16 October, 2020 12:12 pm IST
Mumbai: On 11 October, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray announced that the
car shed for Mumbai’s costliest Metro rail project will be shifted out of Aarey Colony, after a
public movement to save one of the city’s few green lungs.
Civil servants took the project back to the drawing board at a time when 60 per cent of its
overall civil work has been completed. The decision will impact the project cost and
timelines, but was one that the state government could have taken several years ago and
minimised the delays, sources involved in the decision-making process told The Print.
Meanwhile, the car shed change is just the latest among a string of challenges that Mumbai’s
first proposed underground Metro has had to face right from the inception of the project a
decade ago, causing time and cost overruns. The showpiece Metro line will run through south
Mumbai and the city’s centre to connect key destinations such as Bandra Kurla Complex, the
airport and the exports district of SEEPZ. The car shed could finally become a reality in
another two and a half years — officials said that’s the timeline the project could require to be
developed — if the required approvals come without further delay.
Cost already up 40 per cent
While the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC), the government agency implementing
the Metro project, hasn’t officially revised the cost of the 33.5-km fully-underground Colaba-
Bandra-Seepz Metro corridor from the originally estimated Rs 23,136 crore, government
sources say the cost has already swelled nearly 40 per cent to about Rs 32,000 crore.
With the latest challenge of a change in the car shed location, the project is also set to miss its
2021 deadline.
While the MMRC declined to comment, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development
Authority (MMRDA) Metropolitan Commissioner R.A. Rajeev said, “Any car depot to get
developed takes about two and a half years. Other activities of the project can go on in
parallel in the meantime.” Rajeev said it is too premature to talk about cost overruns due to a
change in the car shed, but the impact will not be as large as is made out to be by detractors of
the move. A source involved in evaluating alternative sites for the car depot said Environment
Minister Aaditya Thackeray held over a dozen meetings with the MMRDA, the MMRC,
officials from the revenue department and experts. “It was discussed that the cost of the
Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro project is likely to rise by about Rs 360-400 crore on account of
this one change,” he said. Former CM Devendra Fadnavis has claimed that a car depot change
will lead to a cost escalation of Rs 4,000 crore.
Kanjurmarg option was ‘unsuitable’ earlier
The CM Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government decided to relocate the car
depot for the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro project to Kanjurmarg, an open land grassland that
used to be once a salt pan. The option was always on the table, but was turned down by the
erstwhile Fadnavis government, saying it was unsuitable.
A state government official, who didn’t wish to be named, said Kanjurmarg was considered as
an option for the car depot even when the project was first being drawn up nine years ago, but
the then Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) government under Chief Minister
Prithviraj Chavan decided to provisionally go ahead with the Aarey site. Chavan had also
conducted a ground-breaking ceremony for the project in 2014 with the car depot proposed at
Aarey. In April 2012, during a public meeting to hear suggestions and objections on the
project, a city-based environmentalist raised an objection to the site of the proposed car shed,
but the cause to save Aarey did not gain momentum until 2015.
In 2015, the Fadnavis government formed a technical committee to evaluate alternatives sites,
and the panel suggested having an integrated car depot at Kanjurmarg with a small facility at
Aarey to take care of the project’s immediate needs. But the Fadnavis government later
decided to go ahead with a full car depot at Aarey Colony, requiring the hacking of 2,646
trees on a 30-hectare plot. The previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led dispensation said the
Kanjurmarg land was mired in litigation, marshy and far from the proposed Colaba-Bandra-
Seepz Metro. The same land was, however, proposed as a car shed location for the under-
construction Swami Samarth Nagar-Vikhroli elevated Metro line.
The MVA government has now proposed an alternative where the elevated Swami Samarth
Nagar-Vikhroli corridor and the underground Colaba-Bandra-Seepz corridor share the land
for an integrated car shed.

‘Kanjurmarg land was always viable’

While the previous government said the title of the land was unclear, the MVA government
has contended that this was never the case. The land has always been with the government
and has now been handed over to the MMRDA for a car shed at zero cost.
“We got the decision vetted by all departments concerned — revenue, finance, legal, and
finally from the state attorney general,” a state government official privy to the development
said. MMRDA Commissioner Rajeev said, “This land has been in possession of the state
government for a long time and has never been in dispute. I don’t know what land people
were talking about earlier.”
ThePrint has a copy of the property record for the said land, with a total area of 656 acres,
showing the ownership to be with the Maharashtra government. Of this, the revenue
department transferred 102 acres, or 41 hectare, to the MMRDA earlier this month for an
integrated car depot for the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz and Swami Samarth Nagar-Vikhroli Metro
lines.
“The land is ideal. We need a longish land for car sheds for stabling lines etc instead of a
square or rectangular land like was the case at Aarey,” Rajeev said, adding the MMRDA will
prepare a detailed project report on integrating the two Metro lines.
On Wednesday, former CM Fadnavis leaked a report of an internal panel appointed by the
MVA government under Additional Chief Secretary Manoj Saunik that had echoed the
previous government’s thoughts on the Kanjurmarg land, advocating that the car depot be
retained at Aarey.
“CM Hon Uddhav Thackeray ji says this is a ‘No-Cost’ proposition, but I would say this is a
No-Metro proposition,” Fadnavis lashed out at the MVA government on Twitter.
“Because 76 percent tunnelling work for the project is already done but no car depot for next
4 to 5 years will be an endgame for financial feasibility of the project. Needless to say all cost
escalations will be borne from passengers’ pocket through tickets,” he added.
The MVA government had rejected the Manoj Saunik report.
Other challenges before the project
The metro project has faced several bumps and has always been a political hot potato.
To begin with, the tendering process for the project was stalled for more than a year simply as
the state government had to reconstitute the MMRC board to take tender related decisions.
The issue of rehabilitating residents from some of Mumbai’s oldest areas such as Kalbadevi
and Girgaum too had turned into a political potboiler with leaders from both the Shiv Sena
and the BJP flexing their muscles, demanding a change in alignment. Eventually, a special Rs
700-crore redevelopment plan for the 19 buildings quietened down the political opposition.
The project was also embroiled in a court battle with members of Mumbai’s Parsi community
who were seeking a change in alignment as it passes directly under two fire temples and
Atash Behrams (sacred fires). The Supreme Court ultimately in December 2018 allowed the
MMRC to continue with the tunnelling under the Parsi temples.
Besides, the MMRC had locked horns with some of Mumbai’s most affluent residents living
on the southern tip of Cuffe Parade. Work on the project was stalled during night hours for
several months as residents complained of noise pollution and took the MMRC to court to
hammer out a solution.
The lockdown too affected the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro, impacting the tunnelling work.
Now, Thackeray’s decision to shift the car depot will need the Union urban development
ministry’s approval, as the MMRC is a joint venture between the state and the Centre.