Slippage is common in most projects more so, in Water Resources and Infrastructure projects. Project slippage is also more frequent in developing countries like India as compared to the developed world. The author has done substantial work in India and overseas trying to find workable solutions to this chronic problem and achieved considerable success. The authors long hands on experience with special emphasis on innovative methodologies have been fruitfully utilised in the present work. Two approaches namely, a completely new methodology and, substantial improvement on well known...