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# Why India's Megaprojects Are Always Delayed 

The Bullet Train, the Delhi-Meerut transit line: India's flagship infrastructure projects keep missing deadlines. This short explores why cost underestimation and zero accountability make delays a feature, not a bug, of megaproject planning worldwide.