Smart Cities and Research Institute Projects Underway: Development News for August 14, 2014

[Devdas]

Post some development news and thoughts. Basically, the major news I've found:

Narendra Modi may announce R&D institutes for biotech, pharma & auto in partnership with private companies - Economic Times

Sushma Swaraj to travel to Singapore, smart city project on agenda - The Economic Times

Sistema JSFC plans to develop Narendra Modi’s Smart City project - The Economic Times

PM Narendra Modi to kick off pan-India financial inclusion plan in late August - The Economic Times

Odisha Submits Its List of Smart Cities to Centre -The New Indian Express

India's push for 100 smart cities has tech firms scrambling for contracts - TechRepublic

Railways, road projects to get green nod locally - The Economic Times

Bold Initiative to Finance Property, Infrastructure -The New Indian Express

Will fully follow SC directives on Ganga clean-up: Bharti | Day & Night News

As I said earlier, these massive and ambitious projects are underway, though mostly behind the scenes - as they should be. The last thing India needs is Congress, Mayawati, NGOs and all the other idiots who make money by ruining India to stall projects out of false humanitarian concerns, for example. The biggest issue I see, though, is that local governments outside of places like Maharashtra and Gujarat (and even in those states) are extremely inept. These projects will require extensive federal oversight.

Personally, the smart cities idea is brilliant to reduce the stress on our mega urban centers like Mumbai. Such smart planning will also do a lot of good for India's longterm defence strategies. In short, I'm really excited.

Also, I plan on starting such threads weekly.

 

[blood]

need not start threads for it mate

just post them in 'india developing but still long way to go ' thread

and yes its good if we keep these projects low profile before tree hugging dollar krantikaries sniff something .

 

[Devdas]

need not start threads for it mate

just post them in 'india developing but still long way to go ' thread

and yes its good if we keep these projects low profile before tree hugging dollar krantikaries sniff something .

The reason I didn't is I think that thread and threads like it have an entirely different purpose and function, like posting pictures. If not, everyone would only post in the sticky threads and no new threads would be started.

 

[kbd-raaf]

A good initiative Devdas.

I'll be subscribing to the thread, I hope you update it frequently.