The Mumbai-Pune Expressway and the 55-flyover project in Mumbai represent a paradigm shift in the way governments think, about infrastructure development in the country. Till the BJP-Shiv Sena government came into power in Maharashtra in 1995, most governments had only paid lip service to infrastructure development. The actual work on the ground had been woefully inadequate. For example, by 1997, 50 years after Independence, only four flyovers were built in Mumbai. The sena BJP government was to build 55 more over the next two-and-half years. This was possible because of a happy combination of political will, administrative excellence and engineering skills that went into creating an unique institution called Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), which while being state-owned, worked with a speed and efficiency that left several private sector companies stunned. That former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee used the MSDRC model for his Golden Quadrilateral project is a testimony to its achievements. This book tells the extra-ordinary story of how this done, right from the inception of the organization, its achievements, to how, sadly, the Congress-NCP government in the state, left the corporation financially emasculated. It is story without parallel in India and is told by people who were intimately associated with the project over a long period of time.
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