Indian plans to use China's model to improve cities

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ekal

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Apparently Nagpur is going to be a test case for modernizing a city in just a few short years.

Ditching laissez faire, India plans a city - International Herald Tribune

NAGPUR, India: A year ago, this relatively small, forgettable city in the heart of India did not have an air-conditioned cinema. In the sweltering heat of May, the rich here were known to fly one hour to Mumbai, the financial hub of India, to see a movie. There they stocked up on Levi's jeans and Domino's pizza and other big-city treats that Nagpur failed to provide.


But in a social experiment highly unusual for this most unplanned of countries, the Indian government has handpicked Nagpur to be fattened and primped into an international metropolis.


Lush parks and smooth roads have been lain, and malls and multiplex cinemas have sprouted. A drastically renovated airport is to become the cargo hub of India, with a terminal that is 100 times larger than the existing one and is to handle at least 100 jets at a time instead of the current five. An ecofriendly mass-transit system is being planned to absorb an expected surge in road traffic, years before the average Nagpurian owns a car. The government is building a special economic zone with tax breaks and ready-to-use water, electricity and fiber optic cable, in the hope of attracting 100,000 technology jobs to a city long dominated by coal mining.


Borrowing a chapter from China's playbook, the Indian government has begun working to make metropolises out of smaller, isolated cities, from Jaipur in the north to Vijayawada in the east to Mysore in the south, garnishing them with fresh infrastructure like international airports and financial grants linked to improvements in governance.


"One hundred million people are moving to cities in the next 10 years, and it's important that these 100 million are absorbed into second-tier cities instead of showing up in Delhi or Mumbai," Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the Indian government's chief economic planner, said in a telephone conversation.
 
Old Shanghai to Modern Shanghai is an amazing transformation.

As in China, if they plan a thing, they will implement it according to the plan and schedule without any problem. Other wise the officers in charge would be in deep trouble., because of China's rules.

In India Corruption & Bureaucracy is still there in a big way and the loop holes in the law system makes it even worse.

So, that was the cause of my concern.
 
Hi Newbie

Do you think most of the money invested in projects like this (and others such as free broadband) are going to go to waste?
 
Well, NO.

Well, the growth and the services in the IT and Telecommunications has been exceptional so far, and all the credit goes to the previous IT & Telecom Minister (which resigned 3 Days back, due to political power plays). We do not know weather his successor is capable of doing things like that or how is he going to handle things.

As far as the other projects (like Nagpur) are concerned, you cannot say anything until the projects are completed. Because of the dirty regional politics that exists in India.

For example, the Central Government has considered Nagpur for the project, but the Leaders and Ministers from the other parts of India, who has the majority in the Central Government raises objection and tries to get that Project to their area.

We had seen things like that happening previously. However, things are better now, but not perfect.

Let us hope this project goes as scheduled without any problems or issues.
 

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