This refers to the report "MMRDA to rope in firm for new image"(October 10) and "Space for humour" (Chinese Whispers, October 11). What the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority needs now is a word of encouragement from the public when it has undertaken projects such as the monorail and the metro. Such difficulties have confronted project builders the world over and a 2003 study on mega projects, while dealing with the rearrangement of public and private responsibilities in mega project development, prescribed that professional expertise should be used to plan and implement. It catalogued cases of delays and cost overruns in many projects. India cannot be an exception especially since there are only a few highly-experienced infrastructure companies here.
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