India Developing, but still a long way to go

[Chronos]

Has there been pictures of Chennai? I would like to see what goes on there for more.

The T2 in Mumbai airport is fantastic!

^_^

 

[CorporateAffairs]

The best part is, its completely indegenous without an inch of import and what we get is an international quality beauty. Now I am convinced that India can take China's place coz we can 'build' which is the quality Chini are known for. And with tym we will build more and better. Bottomline is, MUMBAI 'IS' GONNA BECOME A SHANGHAI.

Disagree buddy. Mumbai is light years away from Shanghai.

Step out of T2 and you will find real Mumbai.

Having said that, I'm a optimist.

Shanghai is awesome. For Mumbai to aspire to be like Shanghai is a complement to Shanghai. Mumbai, in plain truth, was more comparable to Karachi, or in recent times, Dubai. Mumbai is fast forwarding to the future.

Personally speaking Shanghai will always remain some yrs. ahead of Mumbai specially re: China's 100 Million Shanghai based cluster. Also, Mumbai is not a river Delta city like Shanghai, Calcutta is. Like the Pearl river bringing all it's riches to Shanghai, the Indus delivers it's riches to Karachi and Ganges delivers it's riches to Calcutta.

The Mumbai-Delhi industrial corridor will do the job in the 21'st century. Indians should actively plan for 100 Million agglomerations around their main cities, or maybe Shanghai set the example. The Tokyo-Osaka, NY-New Jersey-Baltimore, Rio-Sao-Paolo, London-?, Montreal-Toronto-Windsor, Shanghai-Beijing corridors are organic examples. Karachi-Lahore could be one in the future too.

Meanwhile, however:

• India's 1 single Co. TCS's market cap of approx. $ 75 Billion crossed the entire Karachi Stock Exchange's 652 listings combined market cap of $ 53.3 Billion, with plenty to spare.

"Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) leads the club with a market cap of over Rs 4.56 lakh Cr.'s." (about $ 75 Billion). - HCL Technologies joins Rs 1 trillion market capitalization club | Business Standard

Turns out the top 5 Indian pvt. sector Co.'s or top 5 public sector Co.'s can outright buy out all of Karachi's listed Co.'s, give or take. Indian Co.'s have done large Global takeovers and the favorite method is not outright purchase but a leveraged, often highly leveraged takeover. Indian Co.'s home assets are hugely under-valued. I'm thinking this hidden value, often real-estate, is also factored in re: above highly leveraged take-overs. In a free world, Indian Co.'s would eat Pakistani Co.'s for lunch.

Group Co. Tata Motors New Tata Vista VX Tech is here @ Rs 5.99 lakh - Last updated on: January 21, 2014

I also dreamed up that diesel-electric would be the transition transport tech for India re:

1. Tech. trickle down from Indian Railways and Shipping who have long experience in it
2. Warm, diesel friendly climate and plenty of crude-to-diesel conversion tech. availability locally, plus crude oil in the 'hood (read the Gulf).
3. Sluggish, slow infra.

Not!

TATA cars a BIG let down. I would never buy one.

 

[TheGujju]

Disagree buddy. Mumbai is light years away from Shanghai.

Step out of T2 and you will find real Mumbai.

Having said that, I'm a optimist.

How would you define "real"? Is the fantastic side of Mumbai (which is most of it) less real than its ugly side? Which is only 6% of the land mass even though it cotains 35% of the population.

I think this Dholera SIR stuff is a scam of monumental proportions. Cannot see this happening in the next 2 decades, if at all. Financially completely nonviable. Many many giant cash rich mega corporations will have to go totally bankrupt to build this for sure. Ain't happenin'

 

[CorporateAffairs]

How would you define "real"?

Broken roads, drainage overflows, public walls spoiled by posters, garbage everywhere, stinking pavements, is my definition for real.

 

[yorohit79]

Refer to the news article: 62% of Mumbai lives in slums: Census - Hindustan Times

62% of Mumbai lives in Slums. So about 90 lakh (9 million) Mumbai residents now live in slums. This is as against 60 lakh (6 million) recorded in 2001 census - a 50 per cent increase.

Mumbai may be ahead of other south asian cities, but let's keep our feet on the ground and eyes open. Skyscrapers and airports don't turn a city into Shanghai, if the rest of the infra creeks and 2/3rd of the city lives in slums.

We need to massively speed up infra regeneration if we want to even dream of making it a world class city in the next 20-30 years.

On a side note, Shanghai like development models may not work in a democratic setup. Any slum redevelopment projects will continue to face massive protests and litigations. But that is absolutely ok, as long as the efforts for redevelopment are 'sincere' and continuous.

 

[patentneer]

India's New Age BPO Sector

"The lack of technological change and the socialistic environment created a comfort zone, which did not allow the people to explore more in their lives." -Sriram Balasubramanian,

Vs.

Traditional Manufacturing of India

Both of the above sectors, namely BPO & Steel fabrication employ millions of Indians.

Surplus farm and rural workers and even more critically, politically sensitive urban youth; is soaked up by the said sectors and both sectors have moved on to specialisations.
Presently, Indian Co.'s are top 10 among the world's 2, 3 and small 4 wheelers, jeeps, tractors, trucks and bus makers and alongside BPO has moved on to IT enabled help-desk type sales and services industries. Not to mention high end engg. testing, verification and design.

• I believe India's octogenarian politicos avoided the famous '1000 mutinies' or Arab spring type things and kept their cushy seats by not coming in the way of the otherwise disgruntled, dangerous and middling average urban youth going en masse to work at their 'call-center'/ BPO jobs. And now AAP change is blowing in the wind.

How India's businesses have transformed - Rediff.com Business

Just to refute the above sceptics and their comments:

1. India emerges as the most attractive market for FIIs
2. India likely to become 3rd largest economy by 2030
3. 'Nobody gives up in India. Or on India'

(google and read up the above points as slides on thw net yourself)

- Yeh hai India meri jaan! - Rediff.com News

Made in India-New Roads & Infrastructure in India

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[Abingdonboy]

 

[Abingdonboy]

Delhi Airport:

 

[patentneer]

'Indians' ... on shoon-shaan footpaths looking posh too .

 

[TheGujju]

Broken roads, drainage overflows, public walls spoiled by posters, garbage everywhere, stinking pavements, is my definition for real.

Then you have a fantastic ability to filter out the fantastic. Congratulations. Sarcasm apart, both good and bad are a reality. To ignore the one in overwhelming favor of the other reeks of prejudice. One should leave such mindlessness to those who live beyond our western border.

 

[CorporateAffairs]

Then you have a fantastic ability to filter out the fantastic. Congratulations. Sarcasm apart, both good and bad are a reality. To ignore the one in overwhelming favor of the other reeks of prejudice. One should leave such mindlessness to those who live beyond our western border.

Wihtout outside development, India is never complete.

 

[TheGujju]

Wihtout outside development, India is never complete.

Sorry did not understand. Elaborate

 

[CorporateAffairs]

Sorry did not understand. Elaborate

I want inside the airport and outside the airport to look one and the same.

 

[TheGujju]

I want inside the airport and outside the airport to look one and the same.

Don't we all.....

 

[cloud_9]

Bharati Antarctic Research Station​

^^^^^^^