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#WorldClassTransport
The government hopes its new corridors will boost railway freight from 27% to 45% by 2030.

India is at the same time adding 10,000km of highway a year.

economist.com/asia/2023/03/1…
"The length of the rural road network has increased from 381,000km in 2014, when Mr Modi was elected, to 729,000km this year.

Over the same period the number of Indian airports has doubled.
"India’s electricity generation capacity has grown by 22% and renewable-energy capacity has nearly doubled in the five years to 2022.

Broadband connections have jumped from 61m before Mr Modi took over to 816m last year"
"A mobile-based payment system launched in 2016 accounts for over half of digital transactions.

The stated aim of the splurge is to cut the cost of logistics within India from around 14% of gdp today to 8% by 2030."
"The 50,000km of national highway India has added in the past 8 years is twice as much as it managed in the previous 8.

The number of airports with civilian flights has grown from 74 in 2014 to 148 this year."

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Apr 27
#VISHWAGURU

Quite a lot of people snigger when Modi talks of India as a Vishwa Guru.

Two reasons:

• Divisions within India

• A self-flagellating & self-defeating belief that India is not, and will never be, powerful enough to be taken seriously by the world.
If we dismiss the doomsayers, as totally missing all the positives, and the definite possibility of India becoming, at least the No.3 power in the world, what role should India aim for in the world, which is realistic and fits it's genius?
• Step 1 is, of course, to resolve fundamental strains & divisions within India, which are principally religion, caste & Marxist ideology.

By the end of this decade India should have developed, enough economically, to erase social & economic backwardness, which
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#WhatsWrongWithWokes
I always thought that there was something wrong with the unctuous, mincing tones of the Yogendra Yadavs of the world.

All that concern for freedom, democracy, equality & pretend identification with the poor is TO HIDE the
simple fact that the major contributors to people's
welfare are scientists,inventors engineers, technologists,
entrepreneurs, innovators, businessmen, artisans & workers.

Most them are 'action-oriented', often inarticulate, make no
pretence to 'not working for their own benefit' and rarely refer to their humunguous contribution to people's welfare since the dawn of history.

They may as well be non-existent.

That gap is filled by the 'woke' Yadavs of the world. As articulate amplifiers of the woes of
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Apr 20
#ThePoliticsOfStasis
I used to greatly respect @PavanK_Varma at one time. But I now see him almost as a villain in the class of Karan Singh.

These are people who are supposedly intellectuals, steeped in the culture of this land, men of integrity
firstpost.com/opinion/atiq-a…
who could and should have weighed in very strongly against manifest evils in our society & Government.

Yet if you ask what they have achieved, the answer would be zilch, cipher..a big zero.

Here is @PavanK_Varma
waxing eloquent on political, judicial & police
reforms almost 50 years after the need arose, due to great corruption, use of muscle power and community(Muslim)/caste vote-banks all of which were documented in films & discussed threadbare at that time.
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Apr 19
#ChineseFinancialSoup
According to S&P rating, the direct debt of local governments has exceeded 120% of their revenue.

The tactic that this has resulted in is local government financing vehicles (LGFV).

m.economictimes.com/news/internati…
"The ground reality of such a debt financing tool is that the government is borrowing money from citizens on WeChat in amounts as low as 10,000 yuan in order to get around the fact that banks will not lend to them anymore."
"China’s debt is nearly 44% of its GDP and its local governments owe nearly $5.14 trillion. With the economic slowdown and collapse of land sales revenue, provinces and local governments in China are facing an embarrassing situation"
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"Total power supplied during the last fiscal year was 1509.15 billion kWh, 8.4% higher than a year earlier but still 6.69 billion units short of demand, the widest deficit in six years." reuters.com/business/energ…
"Output from plants running on fossil fuels rose 11.2% ....offsetting a 28.7% decline in generation from cleaner gas-fired plants as a global spike in LNG prices deterred usage."

"Electricity generated from coal rose to 1,162.91 billion kWh..with share in overall output 73.1%."
"1 million kWh of power produced from coal generates 975 tonnes of carbon dioxide..while the same amount of power generated from gas produces 475 tonne..and lignite emits 1,280 tonnes to produce equivalent power".
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Apr 6
#NoBudgetForEVMs
"Due to the non-availability of funds for the purchase of EVMs, the uncertainty of getting Tk1,200 crore needed to repair the existing EVMs, and objection from most of the political parties,
tbsnews.net/bangladesh/no-…
the commission may have changed its decision on EVMs," said EC Secretary
Jahangir Alam after a meeting of the EC on Monday."

"Regarding not using EVMs, Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif told TBS, "We demanded use of EVMs because casting votes with ballots
and counting those take a lot of time. Besides, there are examples of miscreants taking over ballot boxes and casting fake votes. There is no chance of these if EVMs are used"
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