Scaling Up, Scaling Down

Focusing on the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, an attempt is made here to understand how central and regional governments are rescaling and restructuring power and governmental authority in terms of the governance and planning arrangements of mega-projects. Mega-projects are emerging as spaces of exception in economic as well as governance terms with far greater involvement of private actors, and constant negotiation of the central and state governments.

This research was funded by a grant from the IGC foundation. Parts of this paper have been submitted to the IGC foundation as part of the project reporting requirements. We would like to acknowledge the contributions of Amogh Arakali, Jyothi Koduganti, and Oviya Govindan to this research. We would also like to thank the reviewers for their very helpful comments. Any errors remain our own.