The intense urban development in India means that the attention is now on completing projects rather than just announcing them. Turning infrastructure vision into reality involves tunnelling under crowded cities and building intricate metro lines with little impact on people's lives. In this conversation with ET Digital, Dr. Nalin Gupta, Managing Director of J. Kumar Infraproject Ltd, talks about the company's role in shaping India's urban mobility landscape, managing large-scale underground projects, navigating cost pressures, and identifying the next wave of opportunities in metros, tunnels, coastal roads, and beyond. Edited excerpts.
The Economic Times (ET): India's metro rail expansion has become one of the world's largest urban infrastructure programmes, but execution beneath dense, live cities is a different challenge altogether. What does running concurrent underground metro construction across Mumbai, Delhi, and Pune actually look like on a day-to-day operational level for J. Kumar Infraprojects?
