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The recent monsoon showers across Western India and Maharashtra have severely exposed major infrastructure vulnerabilities, prompting urgent demands for transparency and structural audits.
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00:00So as large parts of Western India, particularly Mumbai and Maharashtra, are battling the rain fury, let's raise the big
00:07questions.
00:07Why isn't our infrastructure more monsoon ready?
00:12What will it take to create world-class infrastructure, whether it's highways, bridges, roads?
00:17Those are the key questions I want to pose.
00:20Joining me now, Chandrasekhar Prabhu, urban development expert.
00:23He's been tracking this issue for years.
00:25Vaibhav Dange, public policy expert on infrastructure and member board of governors, I.M. Nagpur.
00:31Also Sanjay Hubale, he's former secretary for Mumbai development, government of Maharashtra,
00:36and was responsible for many of the infrastructure projects.
00:39And Shaina NC, national spokesperson of the ruling Shiv Sena Shinde in Maharashtra.
00:45Let's first go straight to you, Shaina NC, because I want to get the politics out of the way.
00:50The manner in which this landslide has taken place, just near the missing link,
00:55this grand project that was inaugurated by the Fatnavis government just nine weeks ago,
01:01at a cost of 6,695 crores, India's tallest cable state bridge.
01:06The landslide and the fact that the retaining wall was affected, traffic affected,
01:12all of that has led people to question where can the government of Maharashtra
01:19or indeed any Indian government claim they are building world-class infrastructure
01:23which is not monsoon ready.
01:25The opposition is saying huge cost escalation and this is an example,
01:30according to them, of corruption.
01:32I am quoting Aditya Thakre of the Shiv Sena UBT here.
01:40Look Rajdeep, let me be very frank.
01:43You know Mumbai, Maharashtra as well as any other citizen.
01:48The fact is we had 588 mm of rainfall in four days.
01:54That is 25% of the annual monsoon and 74% of it just in July.
02:00Now, obviously when you have incessant rain and all kinds of wind pressures,
02:08if we talk about Mumbai, Mumbai to add has a low density,
02:12I mean has low lying areas, high density population of 1.5 crores
02:18and a radius of 603 square kilometers.
02:21Having said that, what our demand is that the BMC for Mumbai
02:27and I will come to your question as well.
02:29As we have a structural audit for buildings,
02:32we should have a structural audit when it comes to trees,
02:35when it comes to manholes and when it comes to potholes.
02:38And to tell you the good news, 80% of the pothole work which is full proof,
02:43that is which never happened in the past has happened
02:46because this is done with and absolutely ready to roll for public.
02:53And the fact that we have been able to achieve this in itself
02:57is a step in the right direction.
02:59There are certain flood prone zones in Mumbai,
03:02like there are about 403 out of 498 which have been treated completely.
03:07And the balance, yes, when you have 1.5 crore population
03:11and you have such lacunas which you have seen,
03:15be it three stakeholders, the citizens, the elected representatives
03:20and of course the administration, the war room is working round the clock.
03:24Now this answers for Mumbai coming to what you saw at the missing link.
03:28When you have incessant rain coupled with this kind of windy breezes, etc.,
03:39I think that we need to use technology and AI to the best of our ability
03:44and that is the other appeal of the Shiv Sena that use AI and technology
03:48to map every square inch so we can make sure we don't have landslides
03:53or if we have landslides, we are in a position to contain it
03:56through our disaster management.
03:58And the war room has been working tirelessly.
04:00Let me please say on record, even in Mumbai,
04:03Ashwini Bhideji who has done an exemplary job as an administrator,
04:08be it the coastal road or the metros, has tried to do exactly the same for Mumbai.
04:15So we can come up with all kinds of falls
04:17but we also need to understand collectively that there are new challenges
04:21and we are bracing them collectively.
04:27You know, I am not doubting the challenges.
04:29I am also not doubting the incessant rainfall that has taken place.
04:33I am only going on record now.
04:35According to Aditya Thakre, while on the way to Pune and back,
04:38I noticed and stated publicly that not even 50 feet of the road is flat.
04:43It is all undulated and feels like one is sitting in a boat riding the waves.
04:47We have already seen potholes emerge right across the Mumbai, Ahmedabad Highway,
04:52other highways also, Delhi, Deradoon.
04:54So there is a larger question.
04:55Is your government willing to confront this allegation
04:58that there has been A, cost escalation
05:00and B, the work has not been up to the standard?
05:03According to Aditya Thakre and the opposition in Maharashtra
05:07but also when we actually witness the kind of potholes
05:10that have come on the Mumbai, Ahmedabad Highway.
05:16Look, we want to use technology to the best of our advantage.
05:20Mr. Aditya Thakre may sit and critique on his high house.
05:24I am glad that he has finally stepped out of his home
05:26to realize what the challenges and the lacunas are on grounds.
05:30Our Shiv Senics have been on ground 24 by 7,
05:34whether it is railway stations or on ground to see that we,
05:38if there is any flooding to bring it to the notice of the BMC.
05:42And in this particular case, when you talk about infrastructure,
05:47please do understand our leader Eknarji Shinde and Devendra Farnavas
05:51and the Mahayuti have pioneered many monumental projects.
05:55It is unfortunate if you have a landslide in certain places,
05:59but the wrath of nature also needs to be looked at collectively.
06:03We cannot just be pointing fingers if we don't come up with a conclusive solution.
06:07There have been costs which have been shown in the past,
06:11which are escalated for the first time.
06:13You have everything which is contained,
06:15even like to give you an example of the Mithi river cleaning.
06:18You know, 99% was done before monsoon this time.
06:22You have had technology and smart IT pumps,
06:26which have tracked real monitoring and flooding in so many spots.
06:31And as far as the roads and potholes are concerned,
06:34the 48 crore pothole budget of which,
06:38you know, you've had no faulty errors as far as a foolproof measure,
06:43because that has been a commitment of the Mahayuti,
06:46saying year after year,
06:47we don't want to be working with contractors who are looting the system,
06:51but it has to be a foolproof measure.
06:53But everything takes time.
06:54It's not a magic wand.
06:56And looking at this incessant rain,
06:58we need the rain too,
06:59but it comes with its challenges.
07:01So I think whether it's an infrastructure project
07:03or domestic VMC,
07:05the war rooms are in play,
07:07technology is in play,
07:09and I'm sure we will be in a better position year after year,
07:12because even if you, Rajdeep,
07:14compare the numbers of the previous years to 2026,
07:17you will only see an improvement.
07:22You know, we'll, you know,
07:24I know that politicians say that time is,
07:28you need all of this,
07:29you need to give it time,
07:30but time is not on the side of citizens,
07:32unfortunately.
07:33I just want to, for a moment,
07:35therefore, take it beyond the politics.
07:36And Chandrasekhar Prabhu,
07:37the government of the day calls it an act of God,
07:41saying that, look, we gave red alerts,
07:43but we cannot,
07:45this is the kind of rainfall,
07:47if in two days you get 25% of the rainfall for an entire month,
07:51many are attributed to climate change,
07:53there's only so much infrastructure can cope up.
07:57So when we talk of world-class infrastructure across the world,
08:00when you have acts of God,
08:01as the government is calling it,
08:03there's only so much governments can do.
08:04Do you go along with this?
08:06Or do you believe that the missing link highway,
08:07for example,
08:08was hastily done,
08:10because there was a need to sort of project
08:11what the government has achieved?
08:14Rajdeep, on issues such as this,
08:17which are of a very serious nature and affect the people,
08:22I think we should be wary
08:25of taking politicians' reactions to it.
08:31Three years ago,
08:32when there was some other dispensation,
08:36which was ruling Maharashtra,
08:38check your own videos
08:41of what these politicians,
08:43what the ruling class was saying
08:46and what the opposition.
08:47There, when it rains more
08:50and it floods,
08:52the opposition says that the ruling class is corrupt
08:56and the ruling class says
08:58that this rain has been unprecedented.
09:01These are stereotype answers.
09:04They make no sense whatsoever.
09:07The public is fed up of all the politicians.
09:11The public feels that they are all cheats
09:16and they take the public for a ride.
09:19So for a moment,
09:21keep these political things away.
09:24They are doing their job of defending this thing.
09:28They will talk besides the point.
09:30They will not come on the thing.
09:327,000 crores get spent on the missing link.
09:40When it was done,
09:42do they not know that that area
09:46gets the kind of rains that it is?
09:49Is it for the first time that in four days
09:52so much rain has happened?
09:53In one day, 300 mm has happened in the past.
09:57So we know as planners, as experts,
10:01we know that when we make these infrastructure projects,
10:06we provide for at least 50 to 100% more rain
10:13than what is the maximum in the past 100 years.
10:18And it's designed for that.
10:20In fact, most of our bridges are over-designed
10:24in the sense they put in extra material.
10:28Politicians say that this extra material
10:30is for increasing the cost and so on.
10:35But, you know,
10:37they are supposed to be designed for these kind of rains.
10:40So you cannot blame nature every time.
10:44Every time whoever is in the ruling party
10:47says it is the rains, it's nature, it is God.
10:51And whoever is in the opposition
10:53says it is the corruption.
10:56Let us accept that there is corruption.
11:00And all these failures of infrastructure
11:04is a result of corruption.
11:06Can someone put his hand to the heart
11:08and say that there is no corruption?
11:10I can show you innumerable examples
11:13of corruption happening day in and day out.
11:18So while we discuss,
11:21even discussing that
11:22these are serious issues of infrastructure,
11:26they involve technical issues of design,
11:30they involve failure of the system of monitoring,
11:35they involve failure of the process of awarding tenders,
11:41they involve failure of the process of not understanding.
11:46The organization which gives tender
11:50is not at all equipped,
11:52it's incompetent to calculate the quality
11:56of what is happening.
11:58So they just don't know.
12:00They just don't know.
12:03Okay, so you're saying,
12:05I take, you've made that point.
12:08You're saying you cannot simply dismiss it
12:10as an act of God.
12:12Let me just explain to our viewers across the nation
12:14what the Mumbai Pune Expressway missing link,
12:19inaugurated by Devendra Fadnavish,
12:20chief minister of Maharashtra on the 1st of May.
12:23The project costs 6,695 crores.
12:27It's a 13.3 kilometer bypass
12:29that comes near the Khandala Ghat.
12:32It makes it easier for you to move from Mumbai to Pune.
12:35It's India's tallest cable state bridge,
12:388.9 kilometers, 1.6 kilometers long tunnels
12:42and shortens the route by six kilometers
12:45travel time by 30 minutes.
12:47Many believe it is a bit of a marvel
12:49in terms of its engineering quality,
12:50but there are now questions being raised.
12:53Was it inaugurated too quickly, hastily on May 1?
12:58Should it have been tested more?
13:00Sanjay Ubali, what's your sense?
13:02Because Devendra Fadnavish has been pitched
13:04as Mr. Infrastructure.
13:05The coastal road in Mumbai has won him a lot of praise.
13:09Now you've got the missing link
13:10which is earning him a lot of criticism.
13:13Is the criticism justified in some way
13:15as Chandrasekha Prabhu seems to suggest,
13:17don't blame the act of God?
13:28You have to unmute, Sanjay.
13:30Please unmute.
13:33Okay, so praise and criticism both go hand in hand.
13:36It cannot be just one way.
13:38So what I would really like is,
13:41first of all, what has happened is unfortunate
13:43and it shouldn't have happened.
13:45I mean, every engineer worth his salt would know
13:48that that's not how it's supposed to be
13:51and it's probably going to cost a lot of money
13:54to even rebuild that portion of the bridge.
13:56So I think what has happened,
13:58we have to accept that it is not correct.
14:00Whatever the circumstances might be,
14:02we know that that particular area is prone to landslides.
14:06We know that the rainfall out there is very intense.
14:10So we have to design around it
14:12and engineers are good at designing these kinds of structures.
14:15So I think it's important that, you know,
14:17we accept the responsibility for what has happened
14:20and take corrective action so that it doesn't really happen again.
14:23Because the moment we start defending this,
14:25the worry to the citizens is that what if this happens again?
14:28Are we going to have another excuse in place
14:30to see that we're able to somehow wash over that incident?
14:33So I think it's important that incidents of this kind
14:35should be somebody needs to take responsibility,
14:38somebody needs to go into detail, do an audit
14:40and say this is what has happened.
14:42Probably even blacklist the people
14:44who probably were responsible for designing of the bridge
14:47or even construction.
14:48And then take it forward,
14:50make it available to the people saying
14:51that we've taken action in this particular case,
14:54we took responsibility and took action.
14:55That's really what I think the people would like to know.
14:58Nobody is really asking for anything else.
15:02I don't even want to get into a political slut fest.
15:04But I think while bokehs are given,
15:06I think some brickbats also are a part of the pasta.
15:13So what you're saying, Sanjay, is you want transparency.
15:17You see, there seems to be when these projects are announced,
15:22questions over cost escalation,
15:23how tenders were given,
15:25how the process was conducted,
15:29structural design questions.
15:30You're saying all of this should be put out
15:32in the public domain
15:33so that when things go wrong,
15:36you know where the blame is to be fixed.
15:38Am I correct?
15:40Exactly.
15:40And not only that,
15:41next time somebody builds it,
15:43somebody designs it,
15:44knows that in case something of this kind happens,
15:46they would be exposed.
15:47So they are very careful
15:48about doing anything wrong at that time.
15:54And you would say blacklist of issues
15:56because the government, Sanjay,
15:57is saying there are no structural weaknesses,
15:59that this was a landslide caused by the heavy rain.
16:02Don't blame the structural issues.
16:03As I said,
16:04there are questions being raised,
16:05not just about the missing link,
16:08but about craters,
16:09potholes across our highways,
16:11Mumbai, Ahmedabad,
16:12Delhi,
16:13Deradun,
16:13Ganga Expressway.
16:14Are you saying every time
16:16a major project is undertaken,
16:18whether it's a highway project
16:19and a missing link project,
16:21a bridge,
16:21all of this needs to,
16:23all the details need to be put out
16:24in the public domain.
16:26So,
16:26if there are cost escalations,
16:28people can ask legitimate questions.
16:30Am I correct again?
16:31Yes, absolutely.
16:32And in fact,
16:32there's a provision for it.
16:33Every such project
16:34has to be put out
16:35in the public domain.
16:36What is the cost?
16:37What is the timeline?
16:38How much has been the cost overrun?
16:39Time overrun?
16:40All of that has to be
16:41in public domain.
16:42That's actually prescribed
16:43even in the contracting documents.
16:45So,
16:46it's not something that's new
16:47that one is asking for.
16:49You know,
16:51yeah,
16:52you see,
16:52Vaibhav,
16:53a lot of the politics
16:54over this is taking place
16:55because of lack of transparency.
16:57The citizen feels somewhere
16:58that something has gone wrong.
17:00Unless,
17:00if the government
17:01has nothing to hide,
17:02why not put all the details out
17:04in public?
17:05It's not just about a photo
17:06op.
17:06It's not just about
17:07a bridge being inaugurated.
17:08As I said,
17:09the coastal road
17:09has got a lot of positive feedback.
17:12It's cut travel time
17:13in Mumbai enormously.
17:15But when big projects
17:16across this country
17:17are undertaken,
17:18there's a sense
17:19that the citizen
17:20is not being informed
17:21of all the details,
17:22who are the contractors.
17:23So,
17:24when things go wrong,
17:26we don't know
17:26who to hold accountable.
17:27We hold the minister accountable.
17:31Absolutely,
17:32I think there cannot be
17:33any second thought
17:34that the governance
17:35needs transparency.
17:37So,
17:37whosoever involved
17:38in such kind of large project,
17:39large infrastructure projects,
17:41all information
17:41should be available public.
17:43And as Mr. Ubayyai said,
17:46those informations
17:47are largely available.
17:48The provisions
17:49are there in the contract.
17:50But I would like
17:51to point out
17:52to one more element
17:52beyond politics.
17:54As Mr. Prabhu said,
17:56politics is the reality
17:57and political part of it
17:59I will not like
17:59to right now comment on.
18:01But there are
18:01two other elements.
18:02For example,
18:03this kind of large
18:04infrastructure projects,
18:05a very detailed study
18:07is done by the consultants
18:08and DPRs are prepared.
18:10But in my last
18:1215-20 years of experience,
18:14I have found that
18:15these DPRs are
18:16technically very,
18:17very faulty.
18:18We don't put enough time
18:20and enough,
18:21as somebody said,
18:22why can't we
18:24expect a situation
18:25to be imagined
18:25that this kind of
18:26rainfall is bound
18:27to happen?
18:28Why can't we
18:29prepare our infrastructure
18:30better for resilient,
18:32for taking up
18:33those kind of
18:34natural challenges?
18:35And I think
18:35there the role
18:36of beyond politicians
18:39comes in.
18:40So political part
18:41is one part
18:42and I don't want
18:42to comment on
18:43whether that corruption
18:44is another part.
18:45But it is the
18:46engineering aspect of it
18:48that also needs
18:50to be looked at.
18:51For example,
18:52I have seen
18:52so many DPRs
18:53where the
18:54paras were just
18:55copy-pasted
18:56from one project
18:56to other project
18:57and this is done
18:58by engineers,
18:59this is checked
18:59by officers,
19:00no politician
19:00is involved in this.
19:01Why can't those
19:02elements be looked at?
19:04I have seen
19:04in so many projects
19:06that an officer
19:07sitting in a
19:08conference room
19:09decides that
19:10the height of bridge
19:11will go down
19:12by 2 meters
19:13or 3 meters
19:13without putting
19:14any scientific
19:16applications to it.
19:17we are very
19:18poor in adopting
19:19technology and
19:20getting data
19:20before coming up
19:21to the large-scale
19:23infrastructure project.
19:25One more element
19:26is equally important.
19:28For example,
19:28Chinabh.
19:29Yes, go ahead.
19:30The test was done
19:31in a laboratory
19:33to make that
19:35kind of big structure.
19:36Those kinds of
19:36elements can be
19:37added as part
19:38of our process.
19:40Why can't our
19:40SOPs be even
19:41more strengthened
19:42so that nobody,
19:43SOPs can be
19:44politicians
19:45and engineer agnostic.
19:47SOPs have to be
19:48followed.
19:48I think those
19:49SOPs need to be
19:50strengthened so that
19:51our engineers,
19:52our DPRs,
19:52in fact,
19:53I myself has
19:54prepared a report
19:54on how our
19:55DPRs are very weak.
19:56There is no data
19:57available to the
19:58contractor to quote.
19:59And then we say
20:00that there is a
20:00cost escalation.
20:01Because for a
20:02contractor,
20:02there is no data
20:03available that
20:03how much excavation
20:04he will have to do,
20:05what kind of
20:06geostrata he will
20:07have to look at,
20:07what kind of
20:08challenges he will
20:09have to look at.
20:09So I think all
20:10those elements also
20:11need to be equally
20:12looked at,
20:14apart from the
20:14governance and
20:15political part of
20:16it, politics part.
20:20You know,
20:20I want to get a
20:21quick answer from
20:22you, a short
20:23answer from you,
20:23Chandrasekha Prabhu.
20:24You know,
20:25comparisons are often
20:26drawn with China.
20:27I mean, one of
20:27China's great
20:28successes has been
20:29what it's done with
20:30physical infrastructure.
20:31And the Modi
20:32government also
20:33takes a lot of
20:34credit for its
20:35attempt to increase
20:36capacity.
20:37But with increase
20:38in capacity,
20:39we've also seen
20:40opaqueness in many
20:41of the contracts.
20:42So the question
20:43arises, what
20:45model do we
20:46follow?
20:46We need big
20:47infrastructure projects,
20:48but do we need
20:50better SOPs in
20:51the manner in which
20:52these projects are
20:53being executed?
20:54Rajiv, let me
20:56give a specific
20:58two or three
20:59examples where
21:00I am personally
21:01involved in the
21:03projects that you
21:04informed.
21:05When the
21:07coastal road,
21:08first of all,
21:09the idea of
21:10coastal road,
21:11how did it come?
21:12It was supposed
21:13to be the
21:14ceiling, the
21:15Bandra Burli
21:16ceiling was to
21:18be extended.
21:18I opposed it
21:21and said it
21:22should not be
21:23in the sea.
21:25Not only will
21:25it cost more,
21:27but it will
21:27destroy the
21:28ecology and
21:30let us have a
21:30coastal road.
21:32Even the
21:33coastal road was
21:34challenged by the
21:35high court.
21:37And because of
21:38the high court,
21:39they had to
21:40appoint a
21:41specialist team,
21:42an expert team,
21:44where I was
21:45personally there,
21:46and the
21:47municipal
21:47commissioner,
21:48Mr. Subot
21:49Kumar, was
21:50the chairman
21:51of the team.
21:52After
21:53deliberating on
21:54all the
21:55technical aspects
21:56and, you
21:58know,
21:59understanding
21:59the maximum
22:01load that can
22:02come through
22:03the rains and
22:04everything,
22:05we gave a
22:07master plan for
22:08the coastal
22:09road, which
22:10involved minimum
22:11amount of
22:13reclamation.
22:14It was our
22:16plan which was
22:17submitted to
22:18the high court
22:19and, you
22:21know, our
22:21arguments saying
22:23that the
22:23experts say
22:24that the
22:25coastal road
22:26will be such
22:28which will
22:28cause the
22:29minimum damage
22:30to the
22:30environment.
22:31The high court
22:32cleared our
22:33report, and
22:35the moment the
22:36high court
22:37dismissed the
22:38petition, all
22:40the points of
22:41safeguard in the
22:43experts committee's
22:44report, were
22:46thrown to the
22:47winds, and
22:48from 40 acres
22:50of reclamation
22:51and in the
22:53outer limit, the
22:54reclamation was
22:55increased to
22:56200 acres, and
22:58all the changes
22:59were brought,
23:00which we had
23:01warned not to
23:03do.
23:03Now, how do
23:04you counter
23:06this?
23:07When there
23:08is a group
23:11of experts who
23:12are sitting and
23:13giving you
23:14opinion in
23:15writing, and
23:17the high court
23:17clears it, then
23:19that which the
23:20high court cleared
23:21is thrown to
23:22the winds, and
23:23some people with
23:25the help, you
23:26know, then the
23:26politicians will
23:27say it's because
23:28of the contractors,
23:29you have to
23:30increase the
23:31price, because
23:335,000 crore
23:34has to be
23:35paid to
23:36someone, but
23:37that apart, why
23:38did you change
23:39the basic
23:40technical
23:42specifications?
23:43You changed
23:44it because of
23:45some reason.
23:46Sir, I
23:47am, I
23:50take your
23:51point, and
23:51you've given a
23:52good concrete
23:53example, which
23:54only justifies, I
23:55think, the
23:55point that all
23:56of us are
23:56trying to make,
23:57and which
23:57hopefully, Shaina
23:58NC will take to
23:59her leadership.
24:00Shaina NC, we
24:01need transparency.
24:02It's all very
24:03well to come on
24:04TV programs, and
24:05say, sab
24:05changa hai, sab
24:07changa si, sab
24:08changa si nahi,
24:10sagada barobar
24:10nahi hai, all
24:11is not well.
24:12So, y'all will
24:13have to ensure, if
24:15you want citizens
24:16to trust you, and
24:17say that the
24:18projects are working
24:19on time schedule,
24:20there are no cost
24:21escalations, the
24:22pothole issue is
24:23being addressed, the
24:25issue of large
24:26infrastructure, please
24:27be transparent, Shaina
24:29NC, that's all
24:30that citizens are
24:31calling, ensure
24:32that we have an
24:33audit of all the
24:34projects put out
24:35in the public
24:36domain, the more
24:37you make it
24:37opaque, the more
24:38you keep it
24:38within the
24:39corridors of
24:40Babudam, if I
24:41may use that
24:42word, the more
24:43the question
24:43citizens will
24:44raise, Shaina
24:46NC, I hope you
24:47appreciate that, and
24:48I hope you will
24:49take that to your
24:50leadership.
24:53That's the reason
24:53why we have talked
24:55about, as you have
24:56structural audits for
24:57buildings, you need
24:57to have it for
24:58potholes, for
24:59manholes, for
25:00trees, and
25:01extended.
25:02You talked about
25:03the missing link, I
25:04just want to say one
25:04thing, that yes, it
25:06was a very difficult
25:07project to complete
25:08through the
25:09Khandala Ghats, and
25:10you know the
25:11topography, but
25:11having said that, this
25:13was a landslide, and
25:14when we come to talk
25:15about Mumbai, also
25:17please appreciate
25:17that 10,000 BMC
25:19personnel, who
25:20should have been on
25:21ground today, it's
25:2215,000 of them, working
25:24tirelessly through a
25:25war room, and
25:26ensuring that
25:27Mumbaikers are as
25:28safe as they can be,
25:30given the challenging
25:31wrath of nature.
25:32I am not doubting the
25:33hard work of the
25:34ordinary, ma'am, I
25:36am not doubting the
25:38hard work of ordinary
25:39employees who work in
25:40crisis situations, in
25:42fact, I salute them, but
25:43we will still continue to
25:44raise questions, and
25:45when newly inaugurated
25:47projects seem to
25:48develop some kind of
25:49weaknesses, loopholes in
25:51the system, that's our
25:52job, and all we are
25:53asking for is greater
25:55transparency in the way
25:57these projects are
25:58handed out, and the
25:59manner in which they are
26:01executed.
26:01I thank my guests for
26:03joining me here on my
26:04big talking point on
26:06what's been happening in
26:07the monsoon fury.
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