Delays in big projects of the country are now taking a toll on the government exchequer. According to the October 2026 report of the central government’s Paimaana portal, the cost of 1,853 ongoing projects has increased by Rs 3.22 lakh crore. The budget of the most affected 25 mega projects has increased by Rs 2.11 lakh crore. This accounts for about 65 percent of the total cost increase. This amount is so huge that it could have built more than 4,200 schools costing Rs 50 crore or more than 1,400 hospitals costing Rs 150 crore. With this, two projects like Delhi-Mumbai Expressway could also be prepared. The situation is also worrying in terms of Karnataka’s Hubli-Ankola rail line being 30 years behind in the deadline. Hubli-Ankola railway line of Karnataka is at the top in this. It was to be completed by March 2005, but now its target has been changed to March 2030 i.e. the project has gone back by 25 years. This is followed by hydropower projects like Subansiri and Tapovan-Vishnugarh, whose timelines have extended by more than 16 years. This means that the public still has to wait for the facilities which should have been available to the public a decade or two ago. However, there are also 1,360 projects which are running on schedule or with an extension of only two years. According to former PWD chief Hariom Sharma, when the priority of the new government changes during a long project, when the priority of the new government changes, then there are problems in the release of funds, due to which the project gets delayed, but now such examples are only selected. Some mega projects are stuck due to administrative and policy hurdles. Now infra projects in the country are done in two phases. In the first phase, land acquisition, environment and forest clearances are taken, while in the second phase, construction work begins. The protests have subsided due to the 2013 law providing for fair compensation. Due to competition in tenders, many projects are being built at a cost 10-15 percent less than the fixed budget. In the coming time, due to multi-level monitoring, the problem of delay and cost overrun will reduce rapidly. ———————–
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