The Hiranandani group is lining up around Rs 7,000 crore in five projects in and around the megalopolis in the next two fiscal years. In an interaction with Benn Kochuveedan, group chairman Niranjan Hiranandani says though the government push for improving the ease of doing business has been a success from the top-level, a lot needs to improve from the bottom-up levels where all industries face inordinate delays even today. An excerpt:
How has been your experience as a builder of iconic townships since the government pushed on improving the ease of doing business at the ground level? Has your life really changed as in being projected?
Of course, there is palpable change at the top level. But I will stick my neck out and say the desired changes, when looked at from a bottom-up level, is much to be wanted. A lot needs to change from the ground level and upwards. This is not my experience alone, this is what every other builder, every other industrialist, who are still flitting in and flitting out of the myriad government offices, face. Let me repeat, a lot has positively changed from the top for sure, because the prime minister himself has been driving it, but the actual change, which has to be at the ground level, which can really make the real difference, is still missing badly.