@95Shubhi the example i gave is hilly too. there are plenty of hilly/mountainous regions to see that have good infra - google maps is your friend
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@protosphinx Dehradun is a hill city, it literally does not have the space for an expansion. Unloading Delhi's burden is gonna cause an environmental catastrophe in the region. There is UP before you reach UK, develop that into a world class infra and Delhi's population expansion'll halt.
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Sure you can move a lot of people to Dehradun but does Dehradun have enough infra capacity to absorb that influx ?
Hotels..restaurants…housing…that will create its own need for jobs…
And now you understand why Chinese cities like Chongqing have massive infra
Siddharth Singh@siddharth3
Meanwhile, the fastest train between Delhi and Dehradun takes 4 hours and 45 minutes. A reasonably affordable fast train line would take 100-120 minutes. With no traffic jams. Who’s going to build that? #TrainMaxxing
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This tweet will be proven right. The time is coming - wait and watch.
Abhishek Murarka 💹🐂@abhymurarka
If cities were traded, I would long Kolkata/ Calcutta and short Bangalore. Calcutta always had everything for commerce and industry except right policies. It's a key hub for export potential.
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>At the moment, I'm going through multiple power cuts a week in the silicon valley of India.
its super retvded obviously and its not even funny how bad it is
there should be zero powercuts and it should be a top priority but the maze of discoms, power producers, state, central is too complex to navigate. ive seen it first hand.
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@Arjunsssssssd @protosphinx When the genuinely impressive reaches me, I'll accept it.
At the moment, I'm going through multiple power cuts a week in the silicon valley of India.
It's odd to ask someone to appreciate the nicities in the country when they're suffering from the garbage surrounding them
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My Indian TL: we built this highest tallest train/road bridge. 5 new expressways. undersea bullet train tunnel. a new metro. 2 new greenfield airports...
American TL:
Greta Van Susteren@greta
Disgraceful- the container ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore more than 2 years ago and still not repaired
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this is bare minimum. at some point they will start designing for freight and cargo and develop massive industrial hubs to connect with supply chain. that hasn't happened yet but hopefully they'll start working on it soon.
moving passengers in my view is secondary to industrial logistics - play any simulation and you will see how hard industrial scale logistics is.
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Infrastructure is a prerequisite for manufacturing.
Expanding manufacturing capacity means little if your supply chain is slow. What's the point if raw materials don’t arrive on time or finished goods can’t ship out quickly.
So demand -> infra -> manufacturing curve needs to be in sync. Thankfully there's enough demand in the economy - so that means you get to the second point ie infra and fix it asap.
Labor mobility matters just as much. If people can’t move reliably from low-income regions to production hubs, it creates social unrest. You need train lines, highways etc to bring your labor force to work from your labor producing regions to your factories.
In short to enable manufacturing, infrastructure must come first.
Manufacturing only works at scale. Scale depends on peak roads, rail, ports, power and logistics infra - which should be at scale from day 1. Not build as you build - but be at scale almost as you start.
You can't wait for power systems to go online or highways to build as you expand your factories and that's the conundrum. All of it is required from day 1.
Indian Infra@IndiaInfra02
Raipur-Visakhapatnam 6-lane Expressway, part of Raipur-Visakhapatnam Economic Corridor, connecting Chhattisgarh and Odisha to Visakhapatnam port in AP. Total length - 464 km. Odisha section Total packages-8. Package 8 of 22 km is now complete. Deadline Dec 2026.
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@Arjunsssssssd @LegacyofAshes yes both can be true.
one of the things indians are very bad at is simple logic of two things being true at the same time. it comes from scarcity mindset.
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@protosphinx @LegacyofAshes I agree with that
But every time someone talks about infra , people bring that one or two pulliya that fell in Bihar Or Mid pradesh .
Can we just accept that there are two extremes in this country, one side is utterly incompetent while the other is genuinely impressive
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@Arjunsssssssd @LegacyofAshes he has a point that there's rampant corruption and i agree. and the solution to that is obviously better a better structure for contract law - i've written extensively on it.
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@LegacyofAshes @protosphinx are bhai government is not responsible for every random rampur pulliya made by a raju contractor with 40% of the allotted budget cuz babus took the rest of the money home
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yes just like you there are 1000s who have their own ideas on how we need to invest money...so it becomes difficult for the govt to prioritize and focus on results
answer is simple. govt should not invest its money since its job is to make sure the basics work. they should make it easy for people like you to pool and invest your own money...when i say people I mean businesses etc...that's how free trade develops.
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@protosphinx Sphinx bhai we do need to invest significant R&D in level 3 biofuels which are derived from sea based lifeforms like algae, seaweed etc.
Ethanol is troublesome as in they occupy lots of land and water.
Do the former under high security. Maybe we'll achieve oil freedom in 10 yrs
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@curiousbeing13 100% its not going to be easy and takes time given India is a democratic place with its own issues - but - the point is that any positive curve is better than a negative spiral
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@protosphinx Now the check same about the garbage like anywhere in major Indian cities.
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India Plus@india_plus_
Which River in india need Riverfront Transformation like this ?
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@LegacyofAshes feel free to follow one of the many infra accounts x.com/IndiaInfra02/s…
Indian Infra@IndiaInfra02
Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project: Assembly of India’s largest-ever 13.56-meter TBM is progressing at Shaft 3 in Sawli, Mumbai. It will bore 9.7 km of the 16 km TBM section, highlight of which is India's first 7 km undersea rail tunnel beneath Thane Creek. (📹Saurabh Raut )
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@protosphinx where are these things in india in your indian tl
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They don’t understand that having corporate leadership comprised of a vellalar, a jatt, and two goltis is the Indian equivalent of having two black guys, a white guy, and a latino. This is as diverse as it gets
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