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Justifying a 1000 crore per kilometer metro cost solely on "brownfield" challenges, utility shifting, and structural safety hides the real financial drain. The underlying cause of this hyper-inflated cost—the highest in Asia—is administrative delays, political gridlock, and inefficient contractor management. Passing this off as simply the "cost of doing business in Mumbai" gives a free pass to the bureaucratic red tape that artificially bloated the budget for years.
