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oc1 ◴[] No.44522688[source]
<< According to official records, the design for the bridge shifted multiple times over the past seven years, largely due to conflicts between the Public Works Department (PWD) and the Railways. The two agencies couldn’t agree on how to share land, and in trying to work around both railway property and the new Metro line, they ended up producing a final layout with an abrupt 90-degree angle.

I love that mindset. Europeans would have simply refused and 100 years later it would have probably been build after all legal has been cleared. Indians instead never say no. That's how you build software, so why not bridges.

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graemep ◴[] No.44523656[source]
On the other hand the Indians have blacklisted the firms involved.

The European mindset seems to be to let them keep doing stuff - e.g. Fujitsu in the UK.

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1. porridgeraisin ◴[] No.44523814[source]
Oh don't worry.

In India, land is the most valuable thing in general and all land/housing/infra related industries are infested with politicians.

There are exceptions of course, and unless this company is one, they'll just be back with a new name, and the political party will be advertising to the public how they're so unbiased that they shut down the company of their own political brother.