Tarmac to Towers

On 24 October 1998, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced the Golden Quadrilateral project, auguring a period of high growth and development in Indian infrastructure. However, in the two decades since, India has seen scams and failures in the sector, along with long slumps when most economic activity ceased. Nothing is so fundamental to the health of a nation as its infrastructure—the foundation of all economic activity.