Random observations in West Godavari

Great blog post over at the Indian Economy blog. The author is hanging around the West Godavari district in AP and found time to blog with a bunch of very interesting and insightful observations.

Excerpts:

Gautam Bastian told me some interesting road factoids. Highways are intentionally made curved so as not to have drivers sleep off. Some well maintained roads in Orissa are oddly ill-maintained at certain stretches along the road. Turns out it is so because the road contract was given based on points marked on maps. The slight difference on the map between the parts of the road provided to two different contractors translates into no-man’s land in reality and nobody maintains it!

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The decent hotel where I am staying in small-town Tadepalligudam has the clock faster by 20 minutes because the manager says it makes the staff more active!

See full article.

(By the way, the author of that post is an unrelated Naveen.)