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Water Car Engineer
as a Keralite, I am always pessimistic about development in Kerala.
There is no such thing.
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Tshering22
Your comment is spot on about power.
Especially for Industrial growth. You need uninterrupted flow of power. First a way to generate power. And then sufficient transmission infrastructure to cope.
There is nothing to be pessimistic. Kerala needs to slowly transition from its Gulf-expatriate driven economy to a local, self-sustainable green industry economy. Kerala has fertile land, rich soil, beautiful scenery, immense potential of connectivity with a strong inter-river transit connection.
You can do it. Just make sure that Communists are kicked out from power and stop making political parties into clans. The clanization of political parties is the most dangerous thing. It is there in your neighbouring TN where AIDMK and DMK are clans, in UP where SP and BSP are clans and in Bengal where TMC and formerly CPM have been clans.
The duopoly clanization is most dangerous.
Get a state development model. You need the following:
1- A robust transport infrastructure connectivity involving in elements like riverine, road and rail transport.
2- Develop more hotels and more tourism related infrastructure in Kerala. It is good already but if you want to challenge, Mauritius and Maldives, you will need massive build up.
3- Focus on an intense cleanliness drive. In Himachal Pradesh for example, there is a very harsh ban on plastic covers and there are many check points (there is still trash by visiting tourists but it is lesser htan what it could be).
4- Encourage medical tourism for Ayurveda alone which is the gift of your state. To make it special you just need to make people believe in what it truly offers.
5- Use your gift of sea. Give tax breaks to ports and allow more shipping to come in. Expand your water-desalination and purification industry, target net electricity exporter's status. You have all the natural gifts you need.
Technically, Kerala can be a super developed state if it gets away from the clan-mindset of political parties.