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Pain without Gain?:Land Assembly and Acquisition for Infrastructure Mega Projects:The Indian Experience with the Bangalore International Airport


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This comprehensive case study on Bangalore International Airport enumerates in a sequence, in stages and phases the role of people involved who finally make up a mega project. Episodes of people, evaluation of process, procedures and systems and the final call of polity are dilated with precision. The complexities of a mega project make impact on future generation. A recount of these will be utility oriented experience and learning.

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Context, Brand, Bangalore, Evaluation, Corporates, Civil Society & Political Voices.
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Kalpana Gopalan
Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore 560 076, India

Abstract


This comprehensive case study on Bangalore International Airport enumerates in a sequence, in stages and phases the role of people involved who finally make up a mega project. Episodes of people, evaluation of process, procedures and systems and the final call of polity are dilated with precision. The complexities of a mega project make impact on future generation. A recount of these will be utility oriented experience and learning.

Keywords


Context, Brand, Bangalore, Evaluation, Corporates, Civil Society & Political Voices.

References