Really?
That several different billion $ projects given to China are out of pure merit but Indian companies getting the deal is "influence".
Sounds to me like confirmation bias on your part.
Rather than crying about bias - why don't you see the quality of the project done even by the Chinese state firms and the quality by the biggest Indian civil construction firms like HCC.
Be objective enough to see the actual quality outside of your blinding 'patriot' slant. But I may be too much of an optimist.
Not all construction companies in India offer stellar quality - other than maybe a company like L&T. It is what it is.
If we are paying for the project - we deserve the very best, wherever that comes from.
Indian companies have a justified mal-reputation of half-a$$, half-finished projects overseas. Please google it sometime.
In terms of quality first is Korean (our Jamuna Bridge with Sam Whan Corp.), second is China (our Padma Bridge with China Major Bridge Engg. Corp.), then comes better grade Indian firms in a distant, distant third place e.g. Simplex (no large projects after Major Hanif Flyover and justifiably so).
Korea may be too expensive by now.
With an unbiased situation sans Hasina - no Indian firm except say L&T would win a bid.
Everyone in Bangladesh knows about the quality of work of all these firms.
Once India gets into NSG,we will see fully Indian designed nuclear reactors in Bangladesh
No one can stop you from having daydreams....
Indian stood by you guys in 1971, why you both are not friends now? Why it always one or the other kicking?
What most Indians don't get is that this was not an act of altruism. Their govt. engineered the breakup of Pakistan starting in 1952.
Indians benefited from,
1. Looting of all war booty as well as industrial machinery in 1971 worth billions (even at that time).
2. Creation of a captive consumer market nearing $20 billion yearly in volume by now.
3. Removal of a 'two-front' threat and having a friendly near-vassal state. Which is better than having a vassal state because you get to create a market without headaches of providing funds for development.
4. Availability of transit to their NE corridor to improve those areas.
5. Damming of rivers to turn it into a desert - thereby killing it economically so it would be dependent on you.