India Developing, but still a long way to go

[patentneer]

^^^
Modi govt. is good for this only ;-)

Implementation ! And thank God 4 it.

American Professor Bhagwati and ex PM Lee Kuan Yew I quote, check their views on Modi and India and let me explain also.

Prof. Bhagwati is in his 90's and in his Modi meetings noticed Modi is no ideologue but an operations man who rose from the ranks, more shop-floor to CEO, then some Ox-Cam pie-in-the-sky Don with things like philosophy, legacy or reputation on his mind.

Lee Kuan Yew on India said Bombay maybe the only workING model for India because when an Indian leader speaks, at least 1/2-1/3 'rd of the ppl. can't even make out what is said! Unlike China, Russia or even Pakistan.

Re. Bombay, things have moved on so much that almost everyone speaks English, and thinks in biz. terms. Bombay knows the nuts and bolts of how India works. Also,Bombay has propagated and exported its cool and calculating business practices to Pune and specially Gujarat. Pune, Bombay, Ahmedabad is one long ideological corridor and would normally arc towards Karachi and Dubai and further to London and New York, at a stretch sure. On the other side it would be Goa, Kerala and Hyderabad, Bangalore, Singapore etc. If one was to join the dots and map a 100 km wide swathe through above Indian area, the vast majority would be middle class, the poor and the rich are both in a minority. Urban India ++! And, future India.

Modi's team is from that functional western corridor, the real backbone of India. Parts of Bombay and Goa look and feel like Europe or America while parts of Hyderabad, Banglore, Kerala, even Chennai and Northside Surat, Ahmedabad and even Punjab even Delhi don't compare with hinterland India.

Gujarati Bombay to Gujarat Karachi with the rest of Maha-Gujarat-Sindh (Pakistan) have traditionally been rich. The Indian part got richer. Pak. Sindh got screwed but most importantly, Bombay retained its entrêpot culture.

Enough said, one gets an idea where Modi's coming from. The Congress party's Socialist agenda meant throw the baby out with the bathwater, which the Commies achieved so successfully in W. Bengal that from being the 2'nd city of the Empire, Calcutta's off the map while upstart Singapore we all know. Could be worse, think Rangoon.

Back to Modi, action speaks louder than words. Within a yr. Modi & Co. Have re-charged govt. C coffers with over Pak Rs. 10 Lac Cr.'s from coal and spectrum auctions alone and lifted India's morale from depression to bright & sunny.

Pakistan could use a leader like Modi r8 about now, don't get me wrong so sorry.

 

[Mr.Nair]

Kolkatta

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[Abingdonboy]

Chennai metro:

Modi govt to speed up implementation of projects worth Rs 2.5 lakh crore by resolving red tape hurdles
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Modi govt to speed up implementation of projects worth Rs 2.5 lakh crore by resolving red tape hurdles - The Economic Times

The new GoI inherited a backlog of some 800 projects iirc (this after MMS had undertaken an aggressive fast track approval process for the last 8 or so months of his tenure) so they certainly have their hands full.

 

[luckych]

 

[Mr.Nair]

Happy to see that even cities like Lucknow taking shape it's own metro rail system

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[Mr.Nair]

1 more year to go for this render to become reality in Kochi

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[russellpeters]

These are pictures of Anushakti-nagar, the civilian colony which houses the employees of the BARC, Mumbai. All of the from the facebook group "Anushaktinagar Events", I am not sure about who the original copyright owners are(Subtitles mine).

Moreover I am not endangering "national security" as the actual facility is 3+ kms inside secure territory.

1) These set of roads lead into and out of the North gate, that is the entrance to the Research center. Cut-off on the right is the Office of the NPC. The white building ahead is an administrative office.

2) Leafy avenues! Buildings house apartments for employees, this building for example would typically be available to a mid-level seniority employee, scientists, engineers, admins etc. NPC building visible on the right.

3) This particular section of the colony is called "Raag-mala" as all building here are named after Hindustaani ragas.

4) This is a school for newly appointed entrants I believe. Fairly new construction.

5) Some other buildings. Picture is dated, as most buildings did get a paint-job recently.

 

[russellpeters]

Continuing

6) This is the school where I studied for around 8 years. We have 6 schools inside with 2 places where you have classes till 12. It has its own ground outside, with a residential building on its side.

7) Some other residential blocks.

7) I am not sure what building this is but it is probably the office of the AERB.

8) This shows a community centre. It houses badminton courts, an auditorium and table-tennis rooms. The ground belongs to the school.

9) The office of the NPCIL

10) A small chapel. Apart from gurudwaras, Anushakti-nagar has temples, a mosque and a chapel for its inhabitants.

 

[patentneer]

Memories ... I jogged here , lived behind.

I have often commented that govt. Co's, defence areas and others may 1 day un-lock their land holdings. They sit on $ Billions worth of land, no joke.

Eg. Maruti-Suzuki in Gurgoan. Bang opposite India's Globalisation epicenters marquee dlf Cybercity below, sits on land I calculated worth at least $ 10 Billion if not double-triple that I if developed to it's full London style Canary Wharf/Dock lands development.

dlf Cybercity Gurgaon

(c)http://www.dlf.in/dlf/newwebsite/photogallery/expressway/pic2-big.jpg

The Co. lists at about $ 30 Billion ( hugely under valued, they own the Indian car market; and by extrapolation, can own any other developing country market leveraging said Indian ops.). The govt. gave them public property. Godrej Vikhroli, RCF or FCI Bombay or Delhi Cantonment.

When will that day come?

 

[patentneer]

• Rs. 100 sq./ft. per month re. dlf chennai IT Park above. That's Pak. Rs. 1200 sq./ft. per yr. !

Approx. $ 100 for 10 x 10 sq./ft. per head.
No wonder low-to-mid level bug fixing work moved to India combined with millions of skilled, readily available and public sector experienced Indian IT types.

Further, India's cheap yet massive IT surge also threw up a cohort of world class professionals Globally. This later cohort includes overseas, NRI, Gulf, South-East Asian and even Sri Lankan origin professionals building bridges and leading from the front.

^^
Re personal and pro. interest, just read Indian call-center and BPO work totes up to $ ~ 50 Billion. Top 10 cities.

A generous 5 sq. ft./seat costs $ 50/head.
Add all the extras, AC, tool's, transport etc.
Salaries, profits, insurance ... 10's of millions of catch-'m-young jobs. This is THE Killer App for any developing economy.

Why? Because it soaks up the very 1/2 & 1/2 politically savvy, city bred cads who will otherwise be out on the streets burning flags and stoning. Political problem brats.

In India, as they moved up this dog-eat-dog industry in the Top 10 metros, riots went to hell, wages went through the roof and salaries went from cigerrete-daaru-adda and pocket money to mobile, laptop, motorbike, car and flat EMI's. Good thing said prices crashed thanks to govt. opening up the economy.

Every 1-2-3 yrs. We are talking BA, B.Com. grads. multiplying pay, imagine the hope!

Mid level BPO execs. in India, ring in Pak. Rs. 1 Lac, 4-5 times Pak. Faujj Major !

That's Indian Rs. 35-45000/mnth.

Compare above with Pakistan's main business cities eg. Karachi-

Bombay - Karachi are honestly sister cities.
My folks have lived in both, family ties. What a world of a difference. For India not to relocate to Mumbai may have been a biz. mistake re. B building up New Delhi to rival established Calcutta, Madras and specially Bombay and even Bangalore and Hyderabad these days, but Pakistan's forward area move from truly multi faceted businesslike Karachi to Islamabad is bearing deadly fruit.

Indian BPO's must imperatively move to the Afghan market to service the Iran market.

 

[heisenberg]

Private greenfield airport at Durgapur ready for takeoff
Durgapur News Service, 25 March 2015: Exactly two years behind the revised schedule, India’s first greenfield private airport, named after revolutionary Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, at Andal, on the outskirts of Durgapur is all set to welcome passengers from second week of the next month.


Once complete, the Kazi Nazrul Islam airport near Durgapur will likely to put many smaller airports of the country to shame. Work is on in full swing to complete the four km access road from NH-2; and at the air traffic control (ATC), technicians are busy getting everything in order.
Located nearly 180 kms from Kolkata, the ₹650 crore airport at Durgapur is a part of India’s first airport-city project promoted by Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Ltd (BAPL) with Changi Airports of Singapore as lead partner. Total investments, including city side development, have already crossed ₹1000 crore.

Partha Ghosh, Managing Director of BAPL reported news agencies: “We are planning a big bang opening in April, with a host of scheduled and non-scheduled air services to different Indian destinations.”

Though Ghosh refuses to give details of the flight services, industry sources claim that the airport will offer daily connectivity to Delhi. Flight options to Hyderabad, Bangalore and Bagdogra (North Bengal) are also explored. Apart from regular operations, BAPL will also try to get the ‘diversion airport’ status.

Mr. Ghosh is bullish about the fact that cheaper refuelling (due to tax breaks offered by the West Bengal government), low parking charges, modern landing facilities, and large passenger base in the industrial and mining belt of West Bengal and Jharkhand, will attract low cost airline operators.

With a fresh equity infusion of ₹90 crore, to help BAPL avoid immediate pressure on finances; the profitability of the project clearly hinges on the city-side development. BAPL now aim to attract top real estate builders and industries in the country to set up shop at the airport city that has provisions for residential, commercial and industrial development.

Ghosh is confident that the project will break even in two to three years.

The idea of building an airport and an airport city near Durgapur was conceived and started by the former Left Front government of Bengal during 2006 -’07. The Andal airport near Durgapur was supposed to come up within three years of the Left Front government handing over 1,818 acres to Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Ltd (BAPL) in 2009. BAPL was supposed to build an airport on 650 acres and use the rest of the land for industrial, institutional and residential purposes.

From the very beginning, Mamata Banerjee who was in opposition then, had serious reservation and apprehension about the project. Buoyed by the success of the Singur and Nandigram land agitation, the farmers at Andal had in a number of occasions stalled work at Andal airport.

After the change of guard in Bengal, when Mamata Banerjee and her party Trinamool Congress came to power in 2011, she announced, almost out of the blue, another airport about 40 km away at Asansol in the same district, putting the viability and technical feasibility of the Andal project under a cloud.

Soon however, good sans prevailed and in the absence of any big-ticket investment in Bengal, Mamata Banerjee felt the call of the hour. In utter desperation to come out of her anti-industry image, she kept away her apprehensions and differences and formally inaugurated the airport at Andal near Durgapur on 19 September 2013 with almost half of her cabinet present at the inaugural function.

But the future success of this new airport at Durgapur will depend much on how the ailing industrial scenario of the entire Asansol-Durgapur industrial belt strides in the path of growth.

KMP expressway project put on fast track
Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
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The plan to decongest New Delhi by diverting vehicular traffic not bound for the National Capital via the 136-km-long Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway Project has received a boost with Haryana now putting the project – that had been moving at a snail’s pace for five years – on fast track.

The Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructural Development Corporation (HSIIDC), which is the executing agency for the six-lane Expressway, said construction work has been put on the fast track and it would now be completed within three years. A spokesman said work on the Expressway, slated to pass through Sonepat, Jhajjar, Gurgaon, Mewat and Palwal districts, has been resumed in two phases -- Manesar-Palwal and Manesar-Kundli. While the Manesar-Palwal section would be completed in nine months, the Manesar-Kundli section would be completed in two years.

The project would not only provide a high speed link between north and south Haryana but would also decongest New Delhi as traffic not meant for it would be able to bypass it. It also seeks to reduce pollution in the National Capital.

Unjustified claims

The spokesman said the earlier concessionaire not only failed to complete the work in time but also raised unjustified claims which led to inordinate delay in the project. But now, the State Government has decided to complete this project in a time bound manner.

The new concessionaire would commence the work within one month after getting the contract. The corporation has initiated the process of inviting bids on both build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis for the balance work of 136 kilometres and simultaneously on item rate basis for the Manesar-Palwal section of expressway.

The Supreme Court in its order dated January 30, 2015, had directed the State Government to award the contract for the project to a new concessionaire within two months time and that the new concessionaire should commence the work within one month thereafter.

 

[CorporateAffairs]

Vizag Metro's DPR ready, submitted to Center for approvals.

I dont consider sky scrappers as a development.
Development for me means, good roads, proper drainage systems, public transports, clean pavements, air to breathe.
Proper housing and business areas marked.
cattle, buffaloes roam free on bangalore roads, causing heavy traffic jams. Garbage is thrown everywhere, roads are dirty, dust everywhere, pot holes, broken system.
Wish someone could fix these, rather than metros and jazzy buildings!

 

[egodoc222]

Vizag Metro's DPR ready, submitted to Center for approvals.

I dont consider sky scrappers as a development.
Development for me means, good roads, proper drainage systems, public transports, clean pavements, air to breathe.
Proper housing and business areas marked.
cattle, buffaloes roam free on bangalore roads, causing heavy traffic jams. Garbage is thrown everywhere, roads are dirty, dust everywhere, pot holes, broken system.
Wish someone could fix these, rather than metros and jazzy buildings!

i started a thread on vizag metro..you should check it out!

 

[CorporateAffairs]

i started a thread on vizag metro..you should check it out!

link plz.

 

[Mr.Nair]

UST Global campus,Trivandrum

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