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Indian cities are witnessing huge influx of migrating population from smaller towns and cities leading to population increase resulting in increase in property demand and land scarcity. As a result, High-rise residential project demand has been increasing in the Metropolitan Cities. The importance of construction industry in India has grown significantly but at the same time, construction projects in India have become infamous for delays and cost overruns. Construction delays are considered one of the most recurring problems in construction industry and has adverse effects on Project�s success in terms of cost, time and quality. There are many research works conducted to identify various causes of delay in construction and their mitigation measure, yet the problem of delay continues to prevail. Indian metro cities like Delhi and Mumbai include higher number of Residential High-rise projects that have been witnessing delay of over 5 years. While most of the projects are executed conventionally with an emphasis on solving the problems as and when encountered, which eventually leads to delay, most of the delays can be prevented, provided due consideration are adopted in pre-construction stage to mitigate the risk of delays encountered during execution stage. The research aims at identifying the reasons of delay in pre-construction stage that are the root cause of various delays encountered during execution phase of Residential High-rise project. The research also intends to identify mitigation measures for the root causes of delay identified to prevent delays in construction project before the execution begin to prevent the risk of schedule overrun.