Fast

I was going through Patrick Collison’s fast page where he talks about projects that were completed very “fast.” Few examples: Apollo 8 which was the first manned spaceship to orbit the moon was completed in 134 days; the Empire State Building was completed in 410 days; The New York Subway was completed in 4.7 years; first prototype of Javascript was written in 10 days; etc.

The first questions that I thought of was why can’t we have projects like that in India? May be because:

• we don’t have enough determination
• we dont have enough skilled people
• we don’t plan properly. I have seen the same road dug up and rebuilt again and again
• we don’t employ enough people. I have see more people work at a construction site than people working on road

Why can’t we start and finish road construction overnight?

The next question that came to my mind was: Are there any projects in India that were completed very “fast”?

• Mangalyaan. ISRO got the approval on 4 Aug 2012, and it was launched on 5 Nov 2013 - 458 days.
  Source: Manmohan formally announces India’s Mars mission,
  Isro kicks off Mars mission campaign with PSLV assembly

If you know of any other projects in India that was completed very fast, please let me know.