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or I would say India severely lags behind China in everything except democratic. Haha, enjoy your freedom.
Is this why China built FBR in 2011 when we did same in 1985?
Is this why we had flag on moon before you?
India severely lags behind China in terms of infrastructure: Defence Report - daily.bhaskar.com
A Parliamentary panel on Tuesday slammed the government for the "slow pace" in matching China in border infrastructure and rejected Defence Ministry's claim that development there was as per India's threat perception.
The Standing Committee on Defence also came down heavily on the Defence Ministry for failing to give a "direct" response to it on "pin pointed" query regarding difficulties faced by India due to poor network of road, rail, and airports and helipads.
The report said the threats perceived by India are not only due to conventional and modern threats but is also due to "slow pace in keeping herself abreast of the technological and infrastructural advancement in comparison to our territorial neighbours, especially China..."
The report dealt with threat perception and preparedness of the forces including incursion on borders, coordination mechanism with the central armed police forces and border connectivity through road, rail and air.
The report tabled in Parliament said substantial improvement and achieving stipulated targets within a time frame and avoiding cost escalations were required with regard to borders.
It also flagged the issue of non-demarcation of Line of Actual Control, limited rail, road and air connectivity, ambivalent claims in defence production, inadequate delivery in research and development and oversight mechanism on the part of administrative departments.
"It is shocking to note that only one road out of 27 ITBP roads is complete and as many as 11 roads are behind schedule and not even the detailed project reports (DPRs) have been finalised," the report said.
The report cited several facts highlighting extremely precarious situation of our defence establishment.
According to the report, China is capable of mobilising 30 division ( each with 15,000 soldiers). It has five fully operational air bases along the border with India and an extensive rail network and over 58,000-km roads in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
A comparison with the Indian capabilities would reveal that PLA troops can easily outnumber Indian soldiers by a margin of 3:1.
The committee sounded alarm bells over India's long term strategy to modernise its defence forces. It pointed out that a steady decline in IAF fighter squadron (each with 18-20 jets) shows "lack of foresight among the decision-makers" because the grim situation would have been averted with "advance planning" and "concerted efforts", it said.
Despite an induction of 272 Su-30MKI fighter plane, IAF will have to do with only 34 squadron till 2017, against its need of 42 squadrons.
IAF is in the process of phasing out its ageing fleet of MiG fighter plane. IAF is expecting to bolster its arsenal with the proposed procurement of 126 French Rafale fighters.
Ouch!! border Infrastructure!
On serious note, our infra in North east India needs to be improved.