KHABAKHA BERNARD: Big projects are delicate, handle Standard Gauge Railway carefully; A case for Lake Victoria Transport

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KHABAKHA BERNARD: Big projects are delicate, handle Standard Gauge Railway carefully; A case for Lake Victoria Transport

A considerable number of public investments fail due to lack of sufficient public scrutiny sometimes called stakeholder engagement. This was a case with the emptiest airport in the world in Sri Lanka, which was built on many assumptions. It is also public knowledge that many government projects in many African countries are managing losses rather than making profits mainly due to the assumptions rather than facts on the ground. But this is a sto…