India Developing, but still a long way to go

[patentneer]

Rajkot
-BRTS

In Mumbai, just the Central Rail Workshop property is 1 million sq. ft. of land.

Rationalising IR lands can generate ~ $ 10 in Mumbai MMR alone. $ 3-5 Billion easily at each of it's major land holdings by putting down 25-50 super-talls there with room to spare for IT Parks, business and entertainment district. Same goes for salt pans, mangroves, port and military lands. Slum re-development, hell I say it's nice to have a full-scale forest inside MMR bounds, but Borivali forest or human beings should be the question. Land reclamation is another obvious, there's chunks of reclamation missing form the centuries old Mumbai reclamation business, so obvious on google maps, around Cuffe Parade. Then there are all kinds of retarded era factories, oil and gas stores even dangerous refineries and fertiliser plants. Some mill lands remain.

Politics, not money nor opportunity or ambition, was the problem. Vested interests - builder mafia, factory mafia and labour union mafia and fractured politics. Now that the center and Mumbai MMR are lined up; and there's been an economic boom and another Modified boom on it's way, Mumbai is back to it's Gold Rush days, I expect things to go really take-off. This time, the world's money is headed Mumbai way. For eg.

• ~ $ 30 Billion (Rs 1.8 lakh cr. ) is what the world's richest energy billionaire Mumbai baed Mukesh Ambani plans to invest in the next 3 yrs.
  
• India’s billionaires are self made, 60 % of them. India ranks 5'th in the global rich list with 89 billionaires, majority of whom are Gujju's and live in Mumbai. Pharma billionaires, another Gujju/Mumbai biz, are the big gainers.

Of course that's the legit list. Some royalty like the Nizams, Gaekwad's, Scindia's and politicians, landowners, contrators, mining and building mafia types are obviously $ Billionaires but don't show up on the list. The shitty metro trains will get better.

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[SAMEET]

Look at this cr@ppy quality train for the Mumbai Metro:
no wonder made in china !

The finical capital of India deserves better

 

[luckych]

ITC grand chola,chennai

Chennai Hotels thread - Page 100 - SkyscraperCity

ITC Grand Chola was awarded the ‘Best Business Hotel’ at the third Annual Lonely Planet
Magazine Travel Awards 2014.

Luxury hotel in Chennai wins award - The Hindu

 

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Chennai Metro

copyright : VinTN, Flickr

 

[yorohit79]

Powai, Mumbai: View from my hostel building

Sunrise at NITIE Mumbai | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

CC: Sandeep Alawa

 

[patentneer]

Hyderabad Metro

Bangalore Metro

Jaipur Metro

 

[Tshering22]

Man, all these pics are good but what India really needs to rev this up is power. And power means not just dependent on us himalayan states for importing hydel power but going full steam for projects like KNPP. The best way to do that is ban foreign-backed NGOs in India, or make it illegal to let them raise voice on infrastructure, development and civil law related matters.
Crunch their funding sources and re-route them. Use means to track and hunt down moles and those related to shady foreign groups.

Because these NGOs and rights groups are ALL fraud. They will use a few lakh dollars to show their goody goody side in front of news traders of our country but use the rest of the money to further weaken India. Just ban them all like China did and see how India develops.

 

[Varunjeans]

Hyderabad metro coaches

 

[Bombaywalla]

Hyderabad metro coaches

Source?

 

[patentneer]

Man, all these pics are good but what India really needs to rev this up is power. And power means not just dependent on us himalayan states for importing hydel power but going full steam for projects like KNPP. The best way to do that is ban foreign-backed NGOs in India, or make it illegal to let them raise voice on infrastructure, development and civil law related matters.
Crunch their funding sources and re-route them. Use means to track and hunt down moles and those related to shady foreign groups.

Because these NGOs and rights groups are ALL fraud. They will use a few lakh dollars to show their goody goody side in front of news traders of our country but use the rest of the money to further weaken India. Just ban them all like China did and see how India develops.

^^^
1 word - Brookings Institution and other Global think tanks!

Till recently, within living memory, survival was the real issue for post colonial India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri-Lanka etc. Brookings tells how till the 90's defence, security, protection from neighbourhood countries and cold war dynamics meant forget power, the state had to spend everything on the military just to survive. Only the late 90's gave India the peace dividend re: nukes. The Indian state's focus turned inwards to stuff like power, infra., economy. And boom!

• The peace has yet to reach some peripheral Af.-Pak., Nepal etc. where bare basic survival is still the issue.

India, therefore has been moving towards :

Rajarhat from the Past, near Kolkatta is 1/2 Way There

Under Construction future GIFT City

Hafeez Contractor high above Mumbai in a current project, the Minerva,
with his Imperial Towers in the distance to the right.

Technically speaking, both above and the rest of the 98 smart cities are civil- structural engg. projects, not rocket science. Otherwise, real-estate projects. Rocket science is not what it used to be and India is good in rocket science, in-fact invented* rocket science .
- *Congreve rocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mumbai Meri Jaan, Check the Pair of new 'Locals'

 

[Tshering22]

^^^
1 word - Brookings Institution and other Global think tanks!

Till recently, within living memory, survival was the real issue for post colonial India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri-Lanka etc. Brookings tells how till the 90's defence, security, protection from neighbourhood countries and cold war dynamics meant forget power, the state had to spend everything on the military just to survive. Only the late 90's gave India the peace dividend re: nukes. The Indian state's focus turned inwards to stuff like power, infra., economy. And boom!

• The peace has yet to reach some peripheral Af.-Pak., Nepal etc. where bare basic survival is still the issue.

India, therefore has been moving towards :

Rajarhat from the Past, near Kolkatta is 1/2 Way There

Under Construction future GIFT City

Hafeez Contractor high above Mumbai in a current project, the Minerva,
with his Imperial Towers in the distance to the right.

Technically speaking, both above and the rest of the 98 smart cities are civil- structural engg. projects, not rocket science. Otherwise, real-estate projects. Rocket science is not what it used to be and India is good in rocket science, in-fact invented* rocket science .
- *Congreve rocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mumbai Meri Jaan, Check the Pair of new 'Locals'

I trust our PM but not my fellow Indians who are short sighted and will keep questioning everything without seeing the bigger picture.

Recently there is a hue and cry for the Rail fares to increase. Why? Railways has been running in losses for more than decades. They have been unable to upgrade anything because there is no revenue. Instead, it is saved by continuous handouts by the government treasury thanks to years of dolanomics practised by the erstwhile Nehru Dynasty.

Years of dolanomics has reduced Indians to the point that they think getting freebies is their divine right and that subsidies are going to save them in the long run when India itself is bleeding.

How can we develop without revenues?

Even under the Railway Minister before Laloo Prasad, there was an attempt to raise Rs. 5 railway fares but there was so much political vested interests that it was dropped and that rail minister was fired.

This is the situation of the common Indian; piling degrees up but with zero knowledge about how a system fundamentally functions.

What is the use of voting power if they don't know how their country is running?

 

[Bombaywalla]

Oasis + Ritz Carlton (85 floors + 53 floors) under construction, Bombay, MH

cc: IU

 

[Bombaywalla]

Oasis + Ritz Carlton (85 floors + 53 floors) under construction, Bombay, MH

cc: IU

 

[Tshering22]

Oasis + Ritz Carlton (85 floors + 53 floors) under construction, Bombay, MH

cc: IU

I didn't know Mumbai still had land space.

Very impressive.