Chittagong is also major city in Bangladesh.Second largest one.Chittagong is a port city, and Kolkata is a major city of India that also has a port, there is a difference.
Chittagong is also major city in Bangladesh.Second largest one.
No one gets a permanent anchoring of the cruise liners. As I said this isn't how the cruise liners work!
Its not your Dhaka to Khulna ferry service which runs on a fixed timetable.
Kolkata is one of the biggest trading hubs in entire south Asia because it is the biggest and busiest city in and around a dozen Indian states (and some foreign countries including yours), all connected with railways, highways, airways, riverways and seaways, it works as a hub for a humongous mass of land. And all the cargo don't need to go through Kolkata or Haldia ports, we also have a couple of deep sea ports around at Paradip and Visakhapatnam with cargo handling figures of 68 and 58.50 million tonnes respectively for 2013-14. We have options, unlike Bangladesh.
And about your Farakka Barrage comment, if you have multiple businesses, then it doesn't mean that you will discard all but the biggest one.
Chittagong is a port city, and Kolkata is a major city of India that also has a port, there is a difference.
Chittagong is actually a bigger and richer city then Kolkata.Chittagong has 6.5 million people vs 4.5 million for Kolkata megacity.It is also much richer than Kolkata.Chittagong city have highest per capita income in BD while per capita income in West Bengal is lower than BD.Kolkata have some bigger infrastucture like metro rail,but overall I will put ahead Chittagong over Kolkata.Yes, but not comparable with Kolkata.
Chittagong is actually a bigger and richer city then Kolkata.Chittagong has 6.5 million people vs 4.5 million for Kolkata megacity.It is also much richer than Kolkata.Chittagong city have highest per capita income in BD while per capita income in West Bengal is lower than BD.Kolkata have some bigger infrastucture like metro rail,but overall I will put ahead Chittagong over Kolkata.
My God,You guys are holding that one pwc blog post as a Gospel truth.That blog's methodology is questionable at best.If Kolkata had 104 billion GDP with 4.5 million people then it's per capita income would have been 23000 usd gdp ppp, a first world developed city like.It is only possible if you include 2/3 of west Bengal as a part of Kolkata.Also in 2008,BD's gdp figure was severely underestimated which reflected in their estimation and projection for Dhaka.In 2008, Kolkata had a GDP of $104 billion, ranked 61 in the world. Dhaka had a GDP of $78 billion ranked 77 in the world.
Chittagong has a GDP of $41.45 billion, that too a 2014 figure.
Check the pwc report: http://pwc.blogs.com/files/global-city-gdp-rankings-2008-2025.pdf
However, beliefs don't always need to be backed by hard facts, so you can have your beliefs!
According to Price warehouse Cooper Chittagong city has nominal per capita 5,719 usd in 2014.Do you think Kolkata have 5700 usd nominal per capita? Chittagong has lowest poverty rate in BD only 4 percent and it has 40 percent industrial output of BD.It is we who should be saying Kolkata is not comparable with Chittagong.Not you.
