Bilal9
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India seems to be similar to BD with no design/ construction standards/ rules set by the Delhi govt. States and below them the local govt offices go "His his, whose whose ways". Contractors do as they like.
We live after all in South Asia without proper education, discipline, and standardization.
However, you will be surprised to know one Indian company named "Dastur Engineering Consultants" (?) was a consultant in a huge Libyan Misurata Steel Mills construction project. It was appointed by the parent govt company, EBISCO.
I still hold dear the design and construction specifications for civil and architecture that Dastur compiled for this project. Not only Kobe Steel from Japan, but also a big German steel company, and an Italian company was also doing construction works there (separate sites). It was a heavily funded big project of Gaddafi.
I worked on this project for Kobe Steel for more than 13 months. After my experience with Dastur, I will not generalize Indian engineers as bad.
Not all Indian Engineers are gadhas. Though the number of 'fake talents' have grown considerably of late. The Sanghi propensity for shortcuts/lies is universal. That will never go away.
Yes you're the only genius who seems to understand this it seems:
Cement, materials standards exist in BD for decades FYI.
The problem is not these paper standards, its whether its possible to oversee every meter of construction so that no corners are cut. That is impossible to do, so you have to work on trust and accountability - both of which are stronger with international firms.
My question is if you're so concerned about standards, why did you spend dozens of posts ranting about BD firms not doing the big projects.
You've shown that you will take any position that disagrees with your party alliances.
@EasyNow bhai we all know the ground realities. Picking fights or splitting hairs over this is pointless.
Sometimes we vent our frustration because we want change in Bangladesh. I don't want to speak for @bluesky bhai but I am sure this is where he was going.
The change we want (independent in-country consultancy and construction of all projects) will never happen with Bangladeshi suwar politician mentality of getting everything done by IFC, ADB, ODA loans, who then automatically appoint contractors and consultants from their own member countries and talent pools, foregoing local ones. Maxx, Abdul Monem and Biswas Builders are very large companies, but their expertise will take time to develop, we have just started the journey to develop Bangladesh infra in earnest (hard to believe as it is).
India is a large enough country, much larger than Bangladesh and with massive amount of projects ongoing, but they too avail of IFC, ADB, ODA loans for most major projects. India's debt to GDP ratio is three times that of ours (recently exceeded 90% whereas ours is around 30%). However the number of large construction projects ongoing in India is obviously a lot larger in size, scope, complexity and number historically, so the number of locally available consultants experienced in larger projects is much greater too. They were at our stage many, many years ago and over time has become more experienced (not everywhere however). These are obvious facts.
India will always have more experienced consultants at a national level than Bangladesh, which is a given - because of these reasons.
Unlike what Sanghi a$$es claim, Indian consultants are by nationality, ethnicity (or religion!) not any more talented than Bangladeshi ones. I have seen plenty of fast talker Burbak and Ahammuk Brahmin consultants from India, even in the US.
Talent does not have anything to do with nationality, religion or go-mutra consumption. It depends on individual drive and opportunity to develop talent and that can be from anywhere.