This blogger has exhibited a tendency for flawed comparisons, and he repeats it here.
1) Hyderabad Metro Phase-1 was executed under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model with L&T, which ran into heavy financial losses, operational friction, and L&T’s eventual exit. AP’s proposed projects in Vizag/Vijayawada are planned under direct state/central equity models. Comparing an ongoing PPP buyout/transition in a mega-city to greenfield DPR approvals in AP misses basic infrastructure finance logic.
Rather than critically examining state-level delays, land acquisition bottlenecks in high-density areas, or PPP structural failures, he quickly attributes the disparity to political victimhood (“punished for being a non-BJP-aligned state”).
2) Old City Hyderabad to Old Delhi comparison ignores crucial urban engineering context…Delhi Metro reached Chandni Chowk / Old Delhi via deep underground tunneling. Hyderabad’s Phase-1 was built almost entirely as an elevated metro.
The delay in extending the elevated metro into Hyderabad’s Old City was historically driven by local political pushback, heritage alignment concerns around Charminar, and severe land acquisition hurdles, and not simply central funding delays.
I doubt whether the blogger gets this point?
Ps..Whether writing about 16th-century history or 21st-century urban transport, the blogger consistently uses a similar template. Please train him or ask him to retake journalism courses.
This blogger has exhibited a tendency for flawed comparisons, and he repeats it here.
1) Hyderabad Metro Phase-1 was executed under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model with L&T, which ran into heavy financial losses, operational friction, and L&T’s eventual exit. AP’s proposed projects in Vizag/Vijayawada are planned under direct state/central equity models. Comparing an ongoing PPP buyout/transition in a mega-city to greenfield DPR approvals in AP misses basic infrastructure finance logic.
Rather than critically examining state-level delays, land acquisition bottlenecks in high-density areas, or PPP structural failures, he quickly attributes the disparity to political victimhood (“punished for being a non-BJP-aligned state”).
2) Old City Hyderabad to Old Delhi comparison ignores crucial urban engineering context…Delhi Metro reached Chandni Chowk / Old Delhi via deep underground tunneling. Hyderabad’s Phase-1 was built almost entirely as an elevated metro.
The delay in extending the elevated metro into Hyderabad’s Old City was historically driven by local political pushback, heritage alignment concerns around Charminar, and severe land acquisition hurdles, and not simply central funding delays.
I doubt whether the blogger gets this point?
Ps..Whether writing about 16th-century history or 21st-century urban transport, the blogger consistently uses a similar template. Please train him or ask him to retake journalism courses.