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A Moment Of Pride

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July 8, 2017

Completion of Kochi Metro’s phase 1 in record time is unprecedented in India’s public infrastructure history

- Hari S. Kartha

A Moment Of Pride

ONCE AGAIN KERALA is in the news, thanks to the fastest and smartest Kochi Metro with many firsts to its credit, becoming a reality in record time. No project, not even much smaller ones, other than the gigantic Metro rail, was ever completed so fast in Kerala. Reasons for their inordinate delay have been many, starting from inefficiency in execution, bureaucratic bottlenecks, political controversies, environmental objections, ideological inhibitions and above all irresponsible trade unionism. But Kochi Metro is an exception, perhaps the only exception in Kerala’s development history. No cost overrun, not even a single man day loss due to workers’ strife, except perhaps on days of general bandh or

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