BJP leader Adityanath talks of possible Bangladeshi investment in Uttar Pradesh

[Sharma Ji]

1. Car racing : All public sports are pointless or idiotic or downright barbaric and car racing is among the most idiotic. Cars going round and round with great chances of the cars crashing into each other or into the wall resulting in death or injury. You really appreciate such activity ?

LOL

quite on the contrary, my dear dumbo commie.. F1 racing represents the pinnacle of auto racing, a lot of those technologies eventually have made their way down to consumer vehicles and made them faster, safer, more fuel efficient.. it's a trickle-down process.

You think companies like Mercedes, McLaren, Renault, BMW etc have been stupidly investing their millions into F1 teams ? .. No ! .. apart from advertising, there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes.. it is a driver of innovation.

I tremendously appreciate such activity and will actively continue to fund it in my most humble of capacities as a viewer, or, in case the circus comes to town, I'll go buy tickets and watch those amazing machines live

2. Bike : Ban the bikes.

I just ordered a chip that will help me reconfigure my gear ratios for my 650 .. lot to learn, but I have a guru teaching me all that.. might post a pic/vid later

tu ghoom dhakkey khatey huwey busson mein.. main to apni bikes chalata.

3. Concert : Perhaps. Something that I like, the smarter of the classical music or good Hindi songs - filmi or otherwise.

There were some really big name rock n roll/metal guys who performed at the Noida facilities.. good concerts, good people, had a lot of fun.

 

[jamahir]

LOL

quite on the contrary, my dear dumbo commie.. F1 racing represents the pinnacle of auto racing, a lot of those technologies eventually have made their way down to consumer vehicles and made them faster, safer, more fuel efficient.. it's a trickle-down process.

You think companies like Mercedes, McLaren, Renault, BMW etc have been stupidly investing their millions into F1 teams ? .. No ! .. apart from advertising, there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes.. it is a driver of innovation.

I tremendously appreciate such activity and will actively continue to fund it in my most humble of capacities as a viewer, or, in case the circus comes to town, I'll go buy tickets and watch those amazing machines live

20 lols on the pinnacle of amazing machines. Those machines won't exist in the first place if ground vehicles are removed for public transportation. This is the age of airborne transportation. In the below thread I post of the cyclorotor, watch this vid of a personal quadcopter called Jetson One created by the Swedish company Jetson and posted by another member in the below thread and then there is the resurgence of the airship concept for passenger transport and material transport :

Making the case for a global ban on privately-owned personal transport cars and two-wheelers

I have often made this topic in posts so I thought why not create a thread for this for discussion and readership. Privately-owned personal transport vehicles ( cars and two-wheelers ) are I believe the biggest form of pollution in the world, directly through their usage and secondarily through...

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Most car companies will cease to exist in five to seven years and the rest will begin to manufacture cyclorotors and airships. The quadcopter taxi is an obsolete concept before it has begun.

tu ghoom dhakkey khatey huwey busson mein.. main to apni bikes chalata.

I take autorickshaws and car taxis generally for special occasions.

There were some really big name rock n roll/metal guys who performed at the Noida facilities.. good concerts, good people, had a lot of fun.

That in particular is not my scene.

 

[Sharma Ji]

20 lols on the pinnacle of amazing machines. Those machines won't exist in the first place if ground vehicles are removed for public transportation. This is the age of airborne transportation. In the below thread I post of the cyclorotor, watch this vid of a personal quadcopter called Jetson One created by the Swedish company Jetson and posted by another member in the below thread and then there is the resurgence of the airship concept for passenger transport and material transport :

Who knows about the future, it may well be the case that we get eco friendly Jetsons style cars in the future.

edit: LOL at your Airships ideas, they're slow, janky, and extremely inflammable.. Hindenburg something.. remember ?

For now though, and back to reality as it exists extraneously aka not in our wild imagination... keep watching those cartoons and movies.

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at least I can't see it being a mode of mass and/or private transport in anywhere near our near future (which includes everyone alive on the planet for now)

internal combustion da ab tak javab nhi kisi ke paas, but increasingly hybrid/battery cars seem to be ruling the roost for now. They're good, I've test driven/ridden most of them.

We would be the most foolish species of beings in the next 10 closest galaxies combined if we were to entirely abandon mother nature's fossil fuel based solutions just yet...

Mila hai kuch, use it.. why is it there in the first place anywhere if humans can not put it to good use and use it ?

Tel bhot kaam ki cheez hai.. dunia ko mat bolo, khud jao aur apna lao

 

[Wood]

Why / What will Bangladesh invest in UP for?

I think the high commissioner must have gone there to discuss the the impact of ban on cattle trafficking since UP has the largest bovine population and it only needs to cross Bihar before it enters slaughter friendly WB en route to Bangladesh.

UP has lower cost of labor than Bangladesh?

 

[Paitoo]

UP has lower cost of labor than Bangladesh?

Possibly. But the power situation is bad. Investing in backups and then diesel can only take you that far. Noida region is probably better but I doubt labour cost there is any lower than Bangladesh.

 

[Bilal9]

WB won’t really. If players like Walton are gunning for India, WB won’t work when places like Gurgaon/Noida/Ahmedabad etc exist — positioned better for a pan-India operation (and relatively closer to Bangladesh than say Chennai or Bangalore)

WB is also complicated - with politics, unions etc.

@Joe Shearer dada would you agree with this view?

Possibly. But the power situation is bad. Investing in backups and then diesel can only take you that far. Noida region is probably better but I doubt labour cost there is any lower than Bangladesh.

Bangladesh labor cost for apparel at least is half that of India. Electronics probably a bit higher but not by much.

However the MBAs will figure this out with ROI and CAGR calculations if manufacturing will be viable and where to place it.

The point is, India is a large market and there are fiscal advantages which would make sense in sourcing even CKD and SKD kits for household appliances from Bangladesh and assembling them in India using local labor for local use.

In this instance, Bangladesh investors will be no different than investors from EU trying to serve the local Indian market.

At one time back in the day, power situation was equally bad in Bangladesh in the late 90's and early 2000s before sufficient powerplants were built. Bangladesh had advantages where rental powerplants (15~199 megawatts capacity) were simply floated to needy areas, docked and turned on to supply to the grid. Some of these powerplants were expensive to run, running on heavy fuel oil and HSDs. But they got the job done.

It all has to make sense economically.

 

[Joe Shearer]

@Joe Shearer dada would you agree with this view?

Difficult to comment, as both Bangladesh and the BJP-run states of India are entering and leaving each other's areas of economic interest in a fluid manner.

Social and political matters also have an influence on the environment for industrial cooperation.

There has to be some understanding by interested BJP states that their Islamophobia cannot co-exist with large-scale industrial cooperation with a neighbouring Muslim majority country whose inhabitants have been described as termites by BJP political leaders.

 

[LakeHawk180]

There has to be some understanding by interested BJP states that their Islamophobia cannot co-exist with large-scale industrial cooperation with a neighbouring Muslim majority country whose inhabitants have been described as termites by BJP political leaders.

In principle yes and I wish it were the case so there would be some acknowledgement that actions have consequences. But GCC investments in UP/Gujarat have only picked up in recent years. Major ones are documented on the InvestIndia website.

But you may still be right.

 

[Joe Shearer]

In principle yes and I wish it were the case so there would be some acknowledgement that actions have consequences. But GCC investments in UP/Gujarat have only picked up in recent years. Major ones are documented on the InvestIndia website.

But you may still be right.

I should distinguish between GCC investments made by originally Indian sources and those made by other segments, including the government.

For the second, if ever there were any thought in any investors' minds that their investment might yield political dividends, the thought might also occur that such influence can only follow investment, not precede it.

 

[Tigers]

It has a population of nearly 250 million.

Population is 250 million but under Yogi's Ram rajya women are not encouraged to participate in the workforce. After you subtract old, young and disabled, the real workforce is half that, 60-80 million.