Hasty execution, tick-box approach often affect quality of projects: Infra planners

Planning India's infrastructure cannot be reduced to a tick-box exercise of cost calculations and hasty execution, industry executives said on Thursday at the Business Standard Infrastructure Summit 2025.

- BS REPORTER

Underscoring how a need for speed has often compromised quality, Jagan Shah, chief executive officer (CEO) of The Infravision Foundation, said: "We do feel that it's also important to remind ourselves that while we need to build fast, we also need to build right. And that compromise will affect the future generations."

Rahul Mithal, chairman and managing director of public-sector infrastructure consultancy Rites, echoed the concern, warning that when timelines take precedence over technical due diligence, the result is infrastructure that may look complete on paper but fails to deliver on the ground.