India's most common governance innovation is the internet shutdown. Haryana has refined it: instead of cutting internet after something controversial happens, it cuts internet the night before, so nothing controversial can be documented at 4 AM.
At 4 AM on May 30, the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad demolished a 700-square-yard mosque at Masjid Chowk in NIT-3 and two temples — structures standing in the path of the upcoming Gurugram-Faridabad-Noida Namo Bharat RRTS corridor and an elevated road project. To ensure this proceeded without incident, the Haryana government had suspended all mobile internet — 2G through 5G, bulk SMS, and dongles — within a one-kilometre radius for 21.5 hours, from midnight until 10 PM. The official reasoning: social media could be misused to "circulate inflammatory content about the demolition drive." India pioneered the internet shutdown as a post-incident containment tool. Haryana has discovered its true purpose: the pre-incident containment tool. The demolitions, ordered by the National Green Tribunal, were completed. Tribune reporters, presumably on broadband, covered them anyway.