🚧 8 YEARS, AND STILL COUNTING

Welcome to Bengaluru — the city that built an IT revolution faster than it can build a flyover. The Ejipura flyover, under construction since 2017, still stands incomplete after eight long years. Eight years of dust, detours, and despair.

For context, the UAE built the Burj Khalifa — the tallest building in the world — in five years.
The US rebuilt the World Trade Center in seven.

And China turned Shenzhen from a fishing village into an industrial megacity in just seven.

But here in India, a single flyover can outlive two governments, three tenders, and the patience of an entire generation of commuters.

🏗️ THE FLYOVER THAT NEVER FLIES

What started as a project to ease congestion between Ejipura and Kendriya Sadan has turned into a textbook case of bureaucratic paralysis and political apathy.

Every passing year, the only thing that seems to rise faster than the pillars is the frustration of citizens forced to crawl through the same chaotic junction daily.

Residents have stopped asking “When will it be done?”
They now ask, “Will it ever be done?”

🕰️ INDIA’S NATIONAL PASTIME: DELAYING INFRASTRUCTURE

Delayed public projects aren’t an exception here — they’re a pattern.
In India, deadlines are mere decoration on foundation stones.

The Ejipura flyover is only the latest entry in a long list of embarrassments — from the chennai Port–Maduravoyal flyover, inaugurated in 2009 and still standing with only pillars to show, to countless urban projects that age faster than they advance.

Each delay bleeds money, erodes public trust, and exposes the systemic rot beneath our infrastructure dreams.

💸 BILLIONS BURNED, zero ACCOUNTABILITY

Public money keeps flowing in the name of “revisions,” “environmental clearances,” and “land acquisition issues.”
But the outcome is always the same: new excuses, old delays.

When projects drag for years, costs don’t just multiply — corruption does.
By the time a delayed flyover finally opens, it’s already outdated, overbudget, and often of under-quality.

And within a few years? Cracks, leaks, or worse — collapses.

We don’t just build slowly.
We build badly and expensively.

⚖️ THE politics OF HALF-BUILT STRUCTURES

Let’s call it what it is: a political showpiece.

Projects like Ejipura are born during election cycles, flagged off with ribbon-cutting fanfare, and then conveniently forgotten until the next campaign.

Every delay becomes someone else’s responsibility — the previous government, the contractor, the weather, the pandemic — anything but the system that never changes.

Completion dates are shuffled like campaign promises, and accountability dies buried under ceremonial plaques.

🏙️ A TALE OF TWO WORLDS

Compare this to countries that treat infrastructure as mission-critical, not optional.

• China builds entire smart cities within a decade.

• Dubai converts deserts into skylines before we even finish tendering.

• The U.S. reconstructs monuments of global significance faster than we can connect two neighbourhoods.

We call ourselves a tech superpower, yet we’re held hostage by potholes and paperwork.

It’s not about capability — it’s about commitment.

💥 WHAT’S AT STAKE: MORE THAN TRAFFIC

Every day this flyover remains unfinished, fuel burns, productivity drops, tempers flare, and trust erodes.

Citizens pay the cost — in hours lost, lungs choked, and taxes wasted.
Meanwhile, those responsible pose for press releases and promise “expedited timelines” that no one believes anymore.

Infrastructure isn’t just about convenience — it’s about credibility.
When governments can’t even finish a flyover, how can they promise a vision for the future?

🧱 CHENNAI’S LESSON: A DECADE OF NOTHINGNESS

If Ejipura is a disaster, the chennai Port–Maduravoyal flyover is a monument to failure.

Launched in 2009, it’s been 15 years of concrete pillars and political passing-the-buck.
No progress, no accountability — just scaffolding that has become part of the landscape.

These ghost structures aren’t just urban eyesores — they’re symbols of broken governance.

🔥 FINAL WORD: INDIA’S REAL INFRASRUCTURE CRISIS ISN’T STEEL OR CEMENT — IT’S SPINE

The real problem isn’t lack of skill or money — it’s lack of urgency, ownership, and shame.

Every time a project like Ejipura crawls for eight years, it tells citizens their time doesn’t matter.
Every time a bridge remains half-built, it proves that we’ve normalized inefficiency.

India doesn’t need more grand inaugurations.
It needs completion.

Because in a country where the world’s tallest building took five years —
A flyover taking eight years is not a delay. It’s a disgrace.