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Dhaka vs Kolkata

@waz @Horus can you guys please close this thread before it turns into an ugly fight? Feel free to send @Rain Man off to a short vacation - he deserves some sunlight. :D

@Bilal9 @Doyalbaba @BDforever @bongbang Who's got time to create a new thread dedicated to discussing everything positive about our cities - current development and future plans, with pictures and stuff?
 
the major issue is the non- biodegradable and plastic(polythene etc) garbage which you cannot use in your compost pit:D here in India also the major proportion of our population comprises of the ones with s***ty mindset. fools would even s**t where they eat. these garbage dumpers are solely responsible for defacing our cities
i like this project. (for plastic) it, will also help to develop our rular areas road constraction cheply..............:azn:
Web Idea 40: [FunOnTheNet] Fw: Jamshedpur's Plastic Roads Initiative Is A Lesson For All Indian Cities!
Again RAW can help me about plastic matters.........................:partay:
 
Dhaka is a nice city as well and growing at a good pace. If they can fix their public transport (which I believe they are) I would rate it at par with Kolkata.
 
Dhaka vs Kolkata

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But it does not need EIU’s ranking for anybody to know that Dhaka has been rotting, stinking and becoming more terrible to live in every year. Star file photo

Sharier Khan

Dhaka has been ranked as the second least liveable city among the world's 140 cities in this year's Global Liveability Index released by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Only Damascus in war-torn Syria lags behind Dhaka, which was placed in second position last year too and at the bottom the year before.
It means Dhaka is competing with a war torn city to snatch the “honour” of being the worst liveable city.

Also READ: Dhaka 2nd least liveable city in the world

This is not the first time Dhaka earned this ranking—it did so last year and Dhaka has been hanging around in the EIU’s 10 worst liveable city ranking for several years now.

But it does not need EIU’s ranking for anybody to know that Dhaka has been rotting, stinking and becoming more terrible to live in every year.

Is it because we have too much population? Is it because we have a lot of resource constraints? Or is it because we Bengalees do not know how to keep our living space nice?


If we look at Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal and perhaps the best case for comparison, we can clearly see it is neither population, nor resource constraint or cultural habits that contributed to the diminishing liveability of Dhaka.

Ask any old timers of Dhaka—they would sigh and say that Dhaka used to be a beautiful green city even back in the seventies. Back then -- Kolkata used to be a city of garbage dumped anywhere on the streets; there used to be frequent load shedding and traffic condition was horrendous. The air of Kolkata used to reek of garbage.


But look how the table has turned. According to a report based on a survey by a Non-government organisation published in the Times of India in June last year, Kolkata ranks the best among 21 selected Indian cities.

Again you don’t even need a survey to compare Kolkata to Dhaka in terms of liveability.
Kolkata has a population of nearly 14 million people (metro population is 4.5 million) while Dhaka has 14 million (with metro population of 7 million). However the spread of urban Dhaka is way smaller than that of Kolkata at present.


Kolkata has one basic advantage over Dhaka—it has many more times the number and length of streets which we do not have. The bustling city also has a metro rail service (ours will be coming a few years later) which carries a bulk number of passengers.

If you have been to Kolkata, you will not find garbage on any of the streets—which tend to sparkle with adequate lighting after the evening. Many of the streets do have potholes in Kolkata—but its nothing compared to Dhaka’s broken streets which are also often smeared with filth, stench and are often dark at night.

Kolkata has 48 government hospitals; whereas Dhaka has around 23 (17 of which are specialised). Many Bangladeshis go to Kolkata for better treatment.

The Kolkata government also runs 14 universities—compared to just four (including Shere Bangla Krishi Biswabidalay and Bangabandhu Medical University) in Dhaka.

The number of taxicabs in Kolkata is no less than 50,000 according to Indian press—whereas this number would be less than 1000 in Dhaka.

Kolkata is no longer a city of jams— Dhaka is. Kolkata now has dozens of flyovers to tackle this situation. On top of it, Kolkata has a complex “One Way” street rule enforcement—many streets remain One Way in the morning in one direction, and in the evening in opposite direction. The concept of One Way street is unheard of in Dhaka.

The biggest visible thing in Kolkata is the empowered policemen on the streets. Nobody fights with the traffic police and commuters rarely disobey traffic rules. The result is visible—you will seldom see a public bus driving like a maniac in all directions in Kolkata. No bus will stop in the middle of the road while crossing a signal. No bus will try to crush other vehicles.

It’s also noteworthy to mention that Kolkata is comparatively safe for women. You can see women passengers returning home on buses even after midnight.

And then they kept their famous Gorer Math neat, clean and green. Compared to that, how did we keep our Suhrawardi Udyan?

Recreation, street food, night life, large shopping malls, apartment lifestyle; on any account, Kolkata is ahead of Dhaka. And yet Kolkata has the same number of Bengalees we have and we share many common cultural traits.

So why do we have a city that appears to be dying? The answer is simple: if you compare the sculptures in the public places in Kolkata with those in Dhaka—you will see that we did not deploy real artists to build our sculptures. We just awarded the job to some people so that they can make some money. This goes with every aspect of the city. People who do not love our city, plan and run our city. The policymakers are not concerned about the city because they must have disconnected themselves from the services this city provides. For health care they fly to Singapore. For their children’s education, they rely on western countries. And when they buy homes, they buy it in Canada or Australia. Otherwise how can they leave this beautiful city rotting?

Dhaka vs Kolkata | The Daily Star
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Also check the pictures in this old thread:

Dhaka v/s Kolkata

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Country makes differences . Kolkata is in India while Dhaka is in Bangladesh . Still Bangladeshi dare to think that they are better than us. Lol
 
Kolkata is a declining city while Dhaka is an emerging one.Current problem is due to rapid rise of population overwhelming the administration to cope with.In 1970 Dhaka had 1 million people vs Kolkata had 10 million.Now Dhaka has more people than Kolkata.When a city experience this type of phenomenal growth,city administration often find it hard to keep pace with.For the last 2/3 decades Kolkata's population is stagnant even declining.So it is much easier for them to provide basic amenities to citizen.:mod:

But the most important difference is that,Dhaka is the capital of an independent country,While kolkata is a third tire city in India nobody talk about.It is like another Agartala or Guwahati.When Indian talk about their cities,they talk about Delhi,Mumbai or Bangalore not Kolkata. Kolkata used to be great when there was british.But after that Delhi's Brahmon Punjabi ruler developed Delhi Mumbai at the expanse of Kolkata.But stupid Indian Bengali are happy to suck up their Brahmon Punjabi master in Delhi and happy to receive some bone thrown at them to keep them servile. If Indian Bengali had an iota of brain then they would have made them free from the Punjabi brahmon ruler of Delhi and joined Bangladesh for continued growth and prosperity.

LOL what a ridiculous rant. Poor guy, are you angry that Kolkatans are proud Indians. No part of India wants to join Bangladesh lol....just let it be.

As for comparing Kolkata and Dhaka economy. Don't make us laugh.

According to PwC report:

http://pwc.blogs.com/files/global-city-gdp-rankings-2008-2025.pdf

Look at the table near the end (page 32).

In 2008, Kolkata had a GDP of 104 billion, ranked 61 in the world. Dhaka had a GDP of 78 billion ranked 77 in the world.

Their estimates for 2025 show that Kolkata will be nearing 300 billion USD by then and Dhaka will be at 215 billion USD.

Sure Mumbai will be 600 billion and Delhi will be 500 billion by 2025....but Kolkata is still the 3rd largest GDP city in India....now and in the future. It is not a "third-tier" city by any stretch of the imagination.

That too it is still bigger than Dhaka's economy even after decades of communist relative stagnation rule...and it is still going to grow faster (% and absolute number) than Dhaka economy over the coming years.....even though it is the number 3 city in India today.

That is the harnessing of economies of scale present in a country like India compared to Bangladesh....and mind you that this report came out before Modi came to power....with the upswing in Indian economy performance and outlook, this will only get better than the prediction from 2008.
 
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LOL at the fake pictures of the metro in the wiki site. Someone jumping the gun? They could not even be consistent...one picture is London the other is Singapore MRT.

Still, all jokes aside, this is a very important development for Dhaka, and I hope it succeeds so the transportation in Dhaka becomes much more efficient....and helps the economy more.
 
Who's got time to create a new thread dedicated to discussing everything positive about our cities - current development and future plans, with pictures and stuff?

This will be a very welcome thread. Following Economic and Urban development is something I enjoy. If people have pictures of say the Dhaka metro construction/concept art, this will be very welcome to see for example.
 
Feel free to send @Rain Man off to a short vacation - he deserves some sunlight. :D

Comeon he is gem of PDF-BDF. When it becomes boring in PDF he is the only source of entertainment.

@Bilal9 @Doyalbaba @BDforever @bongbang Who's got time to create a new thread dedicated to discussing everything positive about our cities - current development and future plans, with pictures and stuff?

Not getting notification. @Bilal9 maybe he can create a thread others can contribute. Some things to note. All district cities are getting bigger. Even the sub cities in a district. One district has 2-3 cities and towns. Due to importance towns getting bigger, cities getting smaller. District cities getting bigger than the divisional cities. I think Bangladesh can still manage not by dividing itself into provinces. Rather a proper city based country. Which something @jamahir proposed. In this way development will be equal and all will be benefited.


Only Dhaka elevated expressway and Metro rail seeing the lights lately

Dhaka Elevated Expressway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Expressway from Dhaka to Mawa
Construction of Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway | Bangladesh Bridge Authority
Construction of Gazipur-Tongi-Narayanganj elevated expressway to start in current year: PM | HighBeam Business: Arrive Prepared
 
Take the jam out. Dhaka is twice developed than kolkata. It is as par with Bombay
 
there is no doubt "THAT WE NEED TO IMPROVE OUR TRANS-PORTACTION STSEM".................:agree::agree::agree:
 
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