Ep 180: Elite Imitation in Public Policy
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Delay in a Construction Project - What's Happening?
Litigation has become so easy with p i l and things like that, that you don't even have to win your case. If the courts were quick, the suit wouldn't work. I delays when they wouldn't file a suit. So it's this combination then when you have all of this regulation, all of these reasons which you might possibly sue, then you have delay, then that assue becomes powerful. And it becomes a way of extracting resources from people who are trying to build buildings in mumbi. Both sides are exploiting the delay. In the case of bombay, the side we must all be on is how to quickly increase housing supply.
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