Meet five bureaucrats who show the way forward for Modi’s Rs 102 trillion infra plan
It would be naive to expect an infrastructure project to be completed on time in India, leave alone ahead of schedule. Many projects take years longer than they are meant to, bogged down by litigation over land acquisition, financial woes and political mudslinging. That is why E Sreedharan’s feat was remarkable. As head of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, he had 10 yrs to commission the first 65 km, but he completed it in seven years and three months.
How did he pull it off?
“I asked the government for two things — the independence to operate with no interference from politicians and bureaucrats, and the freedom to pick my own team,” he told ET Magazine in 2011.
