Well, being able to design and manufacture ANY powerplant by ourselves would a good start.
You fail to remember, that neither India nor Pakistan designed or manufactured ANY significant pieces of Machinery before WWII.
Nothing.
Maybe you are too young and in that case, ask your parents/grandparents. They haven't forgotten.
Everything was 'Phoren Kolla-Borey-Sun' and all after WW II. Stealing designs, copying and reverse engineering ending up with horribly bad copies. Sometimes with license, sometimes without.
Even though both these countries (especially India) had massive needs and demands for these items with their gargantuan population levels.
Until WW II - Indian steam engines were all made in the UK by Sahibs. If the Sahibs threw Indians some bones in the form of setting up DLW, CLW etc. then Indians could build a few things. Diesel locos were copied EMD designs around the sixties. Pakistan's population was very small, so it was all import. Comparison with India then or today was/is moot.
Only in the early nineties after forty years of Nehruvian license raj and closed economy, has India gotten any where as far as advanced manufacturing, which is still a pittance compared to any minuscule European country like Czechosolvakia, Poland or Holland.
So get it in your brain desis - Sahib won't come fix your machines anymore. Those days are gone, gotta do it yourself. Gotta get on the ball.
Indian trolls stop blathering and trying to feel good by dick measuring and dissing backwaters like Bangladesh which has shown far better governance indicators than India itself. Long road ahead of you trying to fix major issues like health and sanitation before getting to be superpower.
Stop being proud of 'showcase' projects like Mangalayan which are all vote getting tactics. Doesn't get a square meal for the aam janta, its pointless.
Like I always say - this side or that side it's still sh*t, and still smelly. Yes this means the whole subcontinent.
গু এর এপিঠ আর ঐপিঠ সবই এক.
You ARE aware that Calcutta, and larger Calcutta, and Bengal in general, was among the leading hubs of the industrialisation in India; why did we get there first, and where do you think we got to be experts in handling water and steam power?
Dada with all due respect, Calcutta was the seat of British power and investments in India for two hundred odd years until they left pretty much (1940's). The opportunities for those near the seat of power afforded a concentration of technical, financial and intellectual expertise which were not available anywhere else in India (except near the West in Mumbai).
This is still paying dividends in today's Kolkata.