Our railways employee more people than our Army. (perhaps only railways in the world.) and our defence budget is extremely low, less than 2% of GDP.
When we build things in India, it need to make profit. While China's model is to keep high GDP growth by building ghost cities and even HSR is for same purpose to keep high GDP growth in global slowdown because seeing the per-capita income of Chinese world's largest HSR network is not going to make much profit, its only purpose is to maintain high GDP growth.
same too you.
Your defence budget is not low.
Share of Defence Budget in Central Government revenues (%) 23.58
Do you think its extremely low?
Our railways employee more people than our Army. (perhaps only railways in the world.)?
Indian railways employee 1.4 million
China railways employee 2.05 million
Dont forget your 960,000 reserve personnel.And railways employee dont need expensive weapons.
Indian railways Length only 65,000 km
China have 110,000 km.
China have high-speed railway 8991 km + 872 km,5545 km are building.
Indian have none.
China's rail transport volume is world's largest, having six percent of the world's operating railways, but carrying 25 percent of the world's total railway workload.
Freight rail by billions of tonne-kilometers
China 2,947 billions tonne-kilometers
India 601 billions tonne-kilometers
Freight rail by million-ton
China 3,919 million-ton
India 833 million-ton
Rail usage statistics by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Railway is Infrastructure ,not for profit.
Maybe you cant understand what is Infrastructure
Infrastructure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When we build things in India, it need to make profit.
It only a joke. No country make profit by Infrastructure.Maybe except India.
I know the reason why there are no Tap water in lots of indian city.
http://agecon.ucdavis.edu/research/seminars/files/cb100223.pdf