India Developing, but still a long way to go

[WAR-rior]

Aamchi Mumbai !

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[IndoCarib]

Drove on this newly widened road behind Manipal university just last month. A year ago this was a pot hole filled one lane road

 

[Indischer]

Drove on this newly widened road behind Manipal university just last month. A year ago this was a pot hole filled one lane road

Is this next to their campus in Manipal or someplace else?

 

[IndoCarib]

Is this next to their campus in Manipal or someplace else?

Yes. Just behind the Univeristy building (Glass cladded building in the 4th pic).

 

[patentneer]

I like the architecture of Powai and nearby area..the greco roman style is so pleasant to the eyes. One suddenly feels "very rational and organized" (true to the ancient greek essence) after entering this hiranandani developed area

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@anyrandom, I agree 100%.

I used to think Greco-Roman blah-blah-blah, till I realised: Parsi!

Think Persepolis. Hafeez Contractor for one is Parsi. All that Greco-Roman is copied from the Parsis.
The Colonial era Edwardian, Victorian then Indo-Saracenic was going somewhere. In North India and Delhi specially, people built private homes and the style that evolved was gaudy 'Punjabdo-Baroque', like lipstick on a pig! But it has merit because it is natural progression.

• One could argue, Hafiz Contractor saved 'Punjabdo-Baroque', dignified it. Not! It's Parsi original.

Check out Baku architecture, or Armenia or Georgia and you get the idea of where this came from. 'ISlamic' architecture also copied Persian. Geometrified it further and don't forget the onion domes.

Gurgaon
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-latest pic.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Chennai Metro:

 

[Abingdonboy]

Mumbai airport:

 

[luckych]

Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT)

source Megaproject: Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT) -- General Development News and Discussions - Page 179 - SkyscraperCity

 

[luckych]

Seating pods in VIP section

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[Bombaywalla]

Seating pods in VIP section

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^^ that's the business/first class check-in area. An Excellent job done by MIAL I reckon.

 

[IndoCarib]

(c) The Hindu

Hyderabad metro U/C

 

[patentneer]

What a shot!

- Ronak Moahanty
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[Brahmos_2]

(c) The Hindu

Hyderabad metro U/C

itz looks like chennai metro

 

[patentneer]

• India’s biggest online retailer Flipkart sets a new benchmark, raises $ 1 billion in fresh funds

Revolution!

India's latest revolution is e-commerce.

In the Indian IT industry, costs are smart HR and rent but nothing vis-a-vis the US; a $ Billion goes a hell of a long way in India.

Put it another way, Flipcart can go out and perhaps hire all the e-commerce talent in India and starve the competition of talent. Flipkart can spread out to the region. Build bespoke logistics infrastructure and hang the competition out to dry. Or advertise.

Read more at: India’s biggest online retailer Flipkart sets a new benchmark, raises $1 billion in fresh funds - The Economic Times

IT Revolution continues

• TCS Market Cap. Shoots past Pak. Rs 10 Lakh Cr. (Over $ 100 Billion)

TCS Mysore

What it means?

TCS $ 100 Billion m-cap Vs. all Co.'s @ KSE $ 65 Billion m-cap. Top 10 Indian IT Co's m-cap exceeds entire Pak. m-cap by far!

TCS Mumbai

TCS New Mumbai

TCS Lucknow

TCS Chennai

Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/38915532.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

 

[patentneer]

Telangana government to set up Pharma City near Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: Telangana Government is mulling to set up a 'Pharma City' near the state capital in about 8,000 acres.
It will include industries as well as residential colony, and a power plant with 500 MW capacity will be set up adjacent to the pharma city to provide captive, dedicated and uninterrupted power supply to the industry, a press release from the chief minister's office said today.

"The required land, infrastructure facilities, communication facility, power supply, water supply etc. will be provided by the government...," it said.

The pharma city is expected to accommodate about

• five lakh (1/2 million) employees besides their families in the residential colony touching about twenty lakh (2 million) over a period," the release quoted Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao as saying.

The Chief Minister has suggested to a delegation of Drugs Manufacturers' Association that an international consultancy organization with expertise in developing industrial estates should be contacted to design the pharma city. The Association also requested the chief minister to create an exclusive department for pharma subject to which he responded positively, the release further said.

Hyderabad to be Expanded by Three Times
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Hyderabad is to expand to thrice its size, with four important hubs — pharmacy, education, sports and media-entertainment. These are to be set up around the proposed Regional Ring Roads alongside the Outer Ring Road, followed by satellite townships.

A total of Rs 2.18 lakh crore (~ $ 37 Billion) is to flow into the city. Several multinational companies including in IT and pharmacy are to set up base at Medchal, Shamirpet, Keesara and other parts of Hyderabad.

Talks have been successful with companies that would employ many as skilled labour. About Rs 400 crore has been sanctioned for the procurement of police vehicles and to improve surveillance.

Every stretch, lane and bylane, will be covered by CCTV cameras. The state government will bring in manufacturing sectors for employment. Telangana is set to be the next seed bowl of India. The poultry sector is to be expanded to create opportunities for unskilled labour. These are the current initiatives of the government in its first phase in making Hyderabad a ‘global city’.

The top priority is to decongest the city by developing satellite towns within a 100-km radii.

Every town will have fenced expressways, MMTS and other measures in view of the Information Technology Investment Region project, which is expected to generate direct employment to 14.8 lakh (1,480,000) and indirect employment to 55.9 lakh (5,590,000) people.

The state government will hire reputed consultants of international recognition to draw up a master plan to provide basic amenities in the city like roads, electricity, transport, underground drainage, connecting the Outer Ring Road and other radial roads.

1 Safety: Computerised technology to enable patrolling division to reach any incident spot within 10 minutes. Improved city surveillance and response system. Police officials also need to be more people-friendly.

2 Housing: Ensure poor have access to rental housing. Existing slums need to be redeveloped. Connectivity and basic infrastructure for houses built under various programmes.

3 Education/Human capital: Government should collaborate with institutions like IIT, ISB, and ASCI to promote development of various skills.

4 Health: Strengthen primary and emergency healthcare.

5 Infrastructure and services: 24 hour water supply, waste water management and solid waste management system need to be focussed on. Redevelop drainage system.

6 Social Culture and Political Environment: Promote culture of Hyderabad and Telangana as well as a cosmopolitan outlook.

7 Environment: Project Hyderabad as a green city. Increase green cover from 20 to 30 per cent. Prioritise lake conversation, promote resource efficiency and energy efficiency. Lake conservation and improvement should be accorded high priority. Promote resource efficiency through rain water harvesting and energy efficiency in building. Create a platform for civil society groups to engage with city government on planning.

8 Financial Maturity: Create a city development fund for financing infrastructure.

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5 lakh jobs re: pharma. 1/2 Million. That many employees will be married to IT or other working class partners. Easy million employees. Each working couple supports 3-5 children, aged or relative directly and at least 1 indirect, 'service industry' job (cleaner, sweeper, denter-painter). Almost 5-7 million people!

By plan, pharma thrust will boost population by more then 3/4th's. ITIR will expand. Population will easily double.

Re: ITIR's ~ 1.5 million new jobs, that's 7.5-10 million people!
Indirect jobs: 5,590,000. Now these are 'service' folks, often sending remittances to the country-side, or living with minimum, single room; single, or max. a young wife or 1-2 toddlers and 2-3 aged or relatives in the country side, the city population only goes up by say 7.5 million.
Plan is that many new jobs, therefore

• 5 - 7 pharma job folks + 7.5 - 10 IT job folks + 7.5 Indirect workers = 20-24.5 Million

Hyderabad population is @ ~ 7 Million presently. New megapolis!

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In other analysis, fabled Rockefeller's Exxon-Mobil quarterly take is nearly $ 10 Billion.
Ambani's Reliance is India's 1'st to breach $ 1 Billion quaterly. PPP that, Reliance's take is equal if not US based Exxon. That's sunset industry business.

Facebook posts $ 1.5-2 Billion Vs. TCS to parent Tata Sons

• which received nearly Rs 9,400 Cr.'s ($ 1.5 Billion) in 1/4'ly dividend from TCS; PPP that or, for local S. Asian comparison
  
• Coal India Ltd., a Govt. of India enterprise, declared a dividend of Rs 8,842 Cr.'s ($ 1.25 Billion) in 2012-13 and an interim dividend of Rs 18,317 Cr.'s ($ 3.1 Billion) this January.

Cairn India eyes oil & gas reserves of 7 billion barrels

MUMBAI: Cairn India is stepping up its exploration programme with the aim to increase its reserves of oil and oil equivalent gas to 7 billion barrels from the earlier estimate of 4.6 billion barrels, the company said Wednesday.

Company executives indicated that gas would play a key role in the company's growth going ahead and it is gearing up to double output from 48 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) produced in the first quarter of 2014-15. "We contin ..

Read more at:
Cairn India eyes oil & gas reserves of 7 billion barrels - The Economic Times