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 ...
