Factors Causing Obstacles and their Effect on Infra Projects (A Case Study)

The budget of Infrastructure projects in India are worth around Rs.100 lakh crore according tothe budget 2019. Also a huge number of these projects are getting delayed invariably. According to theMOSPI reports, of the 1634 infrastructure projects in the country, 373 projects reported cost overruns,while 552 projects saw time escalation.(Express News Service Published 09th December 2019) This isindicative of the fact that the causes of delays and their implications on the cost and time overrunswarrant the need of studying. This study covers the various causes of delays in detail, as well as delayswhich are caused at various stages of the project. For this study only the transportation infrastructureprojects are considered.The various issues plaguing these projects are studied. The study also includes an in depth literaturereview of the subject and the various works carried out on the subject. As a part of data collection, thestudy includes the random sample of road, railway, civilian airports and sea ports. The delays and thetime and cost overruns that they have caused have been studied. Also, the locations of the projects needto be considered for drawing certain conclusions. The study basically carries a qualitative andquantitative assessment of the causes of the delays. It establishes a link to the analysis of the delays inorder to quantify the severity of each type of delay with respect to the time overruns.