Annie Sinha Roy is a proud woman. Working in a male-dominated realm, she is least bothered about what’s to come tomorrow. Precisely because being India’s first and only woman tunnel engineer, she has played a monumental role in the Bengaluru Metro Project. Annie has helped develop the 4.8 km east-west underground track of Namma Bengaluru - the country’s first underground metro line in southern India - that will run from Cubbon Road to Vidhana Soudha.
Annie, who hails from a middle-class family in North Kolkata, wanted to earn a post graduation degree after studying Mechanical Engineering from Nagpur University. However, things turned out differently after her father passed away. She got a job to help with her family’s financial crunch which led to her joining Senbo, a contractor company with Delhi Metro in 2007.
On her first day of the job, Annie heard someone say: “she must be a....
