Well, I concur. The per capita GDP of India is
more than that of Bangladesh both in terms of nominal & PPP. Check
here. I guess you can tick that box now.
That is discounting the discrepancies in your GDP calculation. If you know better, please do clarify in the tax revenue thread instead of requesting the Moderators to ''thought police'' on your behalf.
Also, I already see India already building up a blue water Navy, so you might want to check your hypothesis again.
I don't know where you are getting this data from, but according to
2019 data, India's score of 0.645 is higher than Bangladesh's 0.632.
Maybe you should be more concerned about how Bangladesh is ranked lower than India in access to basic sanitation? Check the data
here.
Any country outside the P5 (& some within the P5 as well) would have to rely on foreign propulsion systems/ weaponry/ sensors to some level for their Naval vessels. Chinese used Russian Fregat clones as radars until they came up with their own phased array radars. Let's see how India's shipborne Missile defense radar ''LRMFR'' on the floating testbed performs, there will be several spinoffs of it for sure.
But still, I don't understand where the Arihant fits in this narrative. Arihant probably has the highest percentage of indigenous components in the entire fleet, including the propulsion system.
Also please do educate me on how the Vikrant- with the same displacement as the Charles De Gaulle- is a ''mini aircraft carrier''.
Hmm, how do you know if it's even higher, given it's dependent on your statistical office-provided data. They might be as competent as your overestimate-tax-revenue-by-one-third finance ministry.
The data provided by your statistical office will contradict other indicators also reported by them. Please do look up the percentage of houses with proper concrete/ brick mortar walls & roofs in your HIES 2016 survey and compare that with Census of India 2011 which happened 6 years prior.
Please don't tell me that you have lower poverty while having a significantly higher percentage of crude poor houses.
I don't see how Space Missions & Missiles will help Politicians when these are managed almost exclusively by technocrats.
Politicians can always rely on infrastructure projects- which always receive a much bigger share of funding- for their cut. As is happening in Bangladesh. For example, Dhaka Metro:
Six times more expensive metro rail!
Literally, every project I found from the wiki & skyscrapercity forum is costlier than their equivalents in India by 3-5X.
I am no expert when it comes to Bangladesh to conclude if this is due to inefficiency, lack of capability, or downright corruption. However, I am sure that this is hurting the average Bangladeshi more than how much our space program is hurting the average Indian.
Well, this statement of yours does warrant an analysis of the Bangladesh Science & Technology Ministry's expenditure, to see who exactly has misplaced priorities.
Bangladesh Ministry of Science and Technology had a budget of
$1.93 billion in 2019-20, which is
4% of the annual budget or
0.67% of the GDP.
In FY 2021-2022, India budgeted
$8.24 billion for science & technology (ISRO: $1.9 billion, DRDO: $1.6 billion, DST :$0.84 billion, Department of Atomic Energy: $3.9 billion), which is
0.9% of the annual budget or
0.26% of the GDP.
So Bangladesh spends 2X per capita on Science & Tech. Or nearly 5 times as a percentage of budget expenditure.
Misplaced priorities? Let's see...
95% of this $1.93 billion budget allocation goes towards the construction of 2400 MWe Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, which costs a whopping
$12.65 billion.
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That'll come to
$5.3 billion per GW, probably the highest anywhere in the world.
Meanwhile, India is building 16 IPHWR-700s of our own IPR & manufacture at just
$1.5 billion per GW. The first unit was commissioned recently.
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has synchronised to the grid the third unit of the Kakrapar nuclear power plant in Gujarat (India). The company had loaded fuel into the 700 MW Indian-designed pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR) in March 2020 and the reactor achieved first...
www.enerdata.net
Now, please do tell me what exactly is the misplaced priority? Spending 2 times more per capita for a 3 times more costly reactor, a technology which Bangladesh cannot absorb?
Or building own capabilities? It's your choice though.