Dhaka vs Kolkata

[fallstuff]

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.

source is a blog !!!

Must be the magical Modi numbers.

 

[nForce]

As I said earlier,20 million is the figure pulled out from the arse of bjp,rss goon.

Your mother in law told you that or you came up with that all by yourself ?... I see them everyday, construction workers, daily wage earners, household help etc. etc.

source is a blog !!!

Must be the magical Modi numbers.

It's published by PricewaterHouse Coopers. Not your typical public blog on blogger or WordPress.

 

[fallstuff]

Take your head out of your arse ..... punjab along with north india produced enough olympic and commonwealth medalists wrestlers than bangladesh would produce in next 100 yaers .... speaking of which how many Bd Wrestlers qualified of olympics

Oh dear god, it takes 1.25 billion Indians only to qualify in Olympics.

You are such an idiot that you even claim this as a bragging right !!

 

[BDforever]

Your mother in law told you that or you came up with that all by yourself ?... I see them everyday, construction workers, daily wage earners, household help etc. etc.

i come to India often, pull out dadas' dhuti and throw rotten machli and then run back to Bangladesh. Every time BSF runs after me and yell... oye rukh.. rukh jara MC BC but me like catch me if you can

 

[nForce]

i come to India often and pull out dadas' dhuti and throw rotten machli and then run back to Bangladesh. Every time BSF runs after me and yell... oye rukh.. rukh jara MC BC but me like catch me if you can

Try the Olympics. You seem like the guy who can give Ussain Bolt a run for his money.

 

[BDforever]

Try the Olympics.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

Rabindranath....he died long before the creation of Bangladesh!!!!!

So what? Rabindranath was a Bangladeshi by default.Have you heard the song 'Aji Bangladesher hridoy hote............Tomar duar aji khule geche sonar Mandire................' Which country he was referring in this song you suppose?

If Rabindranath lived upto 1972 then he obviously taken Bangladeshi citizenship and lived here just like Kazi Nazrul Islam.He may lived in Kolkata for the sake of work, but his thought was always in Bangladesh.So you can tell him a 'Bangladeshi in waiting.'

 

[rezangahir]

http://m.ibnlive.com/news/sports/in....m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushil_Kumar_(wrestler)Pakistan no match for Indian wrestlers - The Express Tribune

Oh dear god, it takes 1.25 billion Indians only to qualify in Olympics.

You are such an idiot that you even claim this as a bragging right !!

Sushil Kumar needs just 107 seconds to beat Abbas and win gold




Dumb clown first read my full post, I said Olympic medalists in wrestling ...Two in last Olympic ....While in commonwealth they need only 107 seconds to beat inferior wrestlers.

 

[bongbang]

So what? Rabindranath was a Bangladeshi by default.Have you heard the song 'Aji Bangladesher hridoy hote............Tomar duar aji khule geche sonar Mandire................' Which country he was referring in this song you suppose?

If Rabindranath lived upto 1972 then he obviously taken Bangladeshi citizenship and lived here just like Kazi Nazrul Islam.He may lived in Kolkata for the sake of work, but his thought was always in Bangladesh.So you can tell him a 'Bangladeshi in waiting.'

I want to ask @Rain Man what he thinks about Kazi Nazrul. He is Indian or Bangladeshi? They even made an airport and University in his name who opted to become Bangladeshi. On the other hand we only took Rabindranth's song as national anthem and made an university in his name. Nothing more. We are calling him in this forum Bangladeshi so these hollow head Indians started crying foul that we may claim his Nobel prize as well. They are not understanding what its an honor for a man if offered nationality by other countries. If Tagore was alive he would take it regardless. We also gave nationality to Muhammed Ali which he accepted happily. I think these Indians dont born as human rather as Indian.

 

[Razia Sultana]

Dhaka vs Kolkata

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

Dhaka is better as they got hilsa. Period!

 

[Ryuzaki]

point of this thread?

 

[Saiful Islam]

Take your head out of your arse ..... punjab along with north india produced enough olympic and commonwealth medalists wrestlers than bangladesh would produce in next 100 yaers .... speaking of which how many Bd Wrestlers qualified of olympics

Has Punjab ever been in a famine? Full fledged civilian war in the last 100 years? Not something like operation Blue Star. You lot have been untouched for the last 150 years where as Bangladesh has faced man made and a plethora of man made calamities. Don't bring your Rajpoon caste here because at the end of the day your people look like the average pradeep.

But a group of Bengali boys in a footy match with some Rajput and almost guarantee you 99% we'd outpace you all over. Most of you are just obese, mush-mush..

Slums have always been associated with INDIA (many, many BBC docs), the most notable ones are in India and the largest one I believe is in Karachi, Orangi town.

 

[fallstuff]

Your mother in law told you that or you came up with that all by yourself ?... I see them everyday, construction workers, daily wage earners, household help etc. etc.


It's published by PricewaterHouse Coopers. Not your typical public blog on blogger or WordPress.

You also believe 30% NASA scientist, Intel employees are Indian.

What part PwCblog is a blog you don't understand ?

 

[nForce]

That's a lie by the right wingers that there are 20 million bangladeshis. Don't fall for it.
My family moved from East Bengal to Assam back in the days. Despite being Hindu, this propaganda is a cause of concern for all of us, as it makes the locals intolerant of even non Muslim Bengalis.

What do you think the figure is ? 10 million ? 15 million ? I cannot say something is wrong until I know what is right.

I can see many Bangladeshis here, everyday. and I have no reason to tell you otherwise. While I have nothing against Bangladeshis in general, illegal immigration creates certain bit of problem for our society.
The men work in lowly paid jobs like constructions, daily wage earners, the women work as house maids and in some cases prostitutes. Mumbai, specially is full of Bangladeshi prostitutes.

1. It becomes difficult to track them. They don't have any identification.
2. Their income cannot be made taxable..
3. They are in search of livelihood, which sometimes leads to crime. a lot many cases I know where illegal immigrants are involved.
4. Destabilization of the society. We don't have unlimited resources to feed every mouth that decides to jump across the border.
5. Then we have vote bank politics being played with these people. Some corrupt political leader will come and give them Voter ID Card, if they vote for him. There you go, a few thousand more on top of the 1.2 billion population.

How many people do you think pay tax in India ? It's tax money of people like me that runs the country, and I would not like to see it being wasted.

We already took more than 10 million of them when they were getting slaughtered by the the Punjabi-Pakistani forces. Some of them came after '71 too. Most probably, your family is one among them. It's about time that process comes to an end.
There were some Bangladeshis in this thread, earlier, who started with comparing Dhaka with Kolkata in terms of economy, a childish thing to begin with, for the economic indicators are crystal clear. They ended up comparing with Mumbai and thereby the entire state of Maharashtra, which comprises of other big cities like Pune, Nasik, Nagpur, Satara, Solapur, etc. etc. - total insanity, again, the economic indicators are crystal clear.

Well, if there has been such a remarkable progress and so many job opportunities there then I think it is about time these keyboard warriors call their brethren back to where they belong, instead of wasting their time here.
Fooling nobody but themselves, insulting their own country men. Cheap..

You also believe 30% NASA scientist, Intel employees are Indian.

What part PwCblog is a blog you don't understand ?

Only if your mother had sent you to a decent school for specially abled.
Who do you think wrote that ? Do you have any idea what PwC is and what is the difference between a Wordpress blog and that report ? Why don't you just keep yourself limited to the stupid & funny section ?

 

[dray]

Dhaka is better as they got hilsa. Period!

We have also got Hilsa.

point of this thread?

Trolling Bangladeshis!

 

[haviZsultan]

 1. Maharashtra, India - 19 Million - TheRichest


Above they say maharashtra is the largest slum.