New Delhi: Thirty-eight-year-old Sharma has been an inspector in Surat’s income tax department for four years. Every morning, he enters a modest four-storey office building on the Ghoddod road. There is a space crunch everywhere. With very little room on his desk—that can barely hold a laptop, a notebook and pen—his bag usually lies on the floor. And even his seat isn’t permanent. The assignments keep changing, and so does his desk. All that is about to change with India’s tallest government building coming up in Surat—a G+27 twin tower structure.

“Each day I curse this office, when I struggle to find space. It’s uncomfortable and outdated. But there’s no choice,” he said. “These buildings were designed for a much smaller government. Then departments expanded, and more people joined. Th

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