Mumbai is getting bullet train.. first in country isn't it? Last checked state was also invested in useless/vaporware like monorail to vacuum tube trains? Maharashtra had first eway in country to newly minted delhi mumbai eway, samruddhi eway etc. Mumbai always enjoyed top class infra in country and still has the best.
Mumbai is currently undergoing one of the largest turnaround in Infrastructure:
lol what?
Bmc isn't eligible to do something?
Whats wrong with sbi, too damn low. Indusland too damn high.
Why will desis pay a premium for local travel only to see more squalor within the country?
Also, I think this is 1 instance where we cannot blame babus. Yes, India has lots of destinations for tourism but overall tourism experience is shit.
as a general commentary on this notion that babus are responsible for all the ills of the country, it was a valid point when almost all aspects of Indian economy was babu driven during socialist era, but now they are a cog in the wheel not the entire wheel, they have their areas of responsibilities but all of the responsibility is not on their heads.
Everything is expensive in India compared to South East Asia and offers less bang for the buck.
if we take infra upgrades in and around kashi vishwanath temple as benchmark(because of it's annual footfall), tourism oriented development cannot be a piece meal project. public works in that area started almost five years and still going on. it is taking combined effort of centre(airport, railways), state(flyovers, and roads), local (local permits and legal hassles)and special purpose vehicles(Shri Kashi Vishwanath Special Area Development Board (SKVSADB) ). in other words, if there is non-cooperation between any of the players, it won't happen.
Was panning the local state governments only. Central Govt. can only allocate funds, sit down with a blueprint/roadmap and nudge them. Then babudom-politician-contractor nexus takes over and the public gets a banana in the end.
Hats off to your countrymen . They've made China proud again. Of course what's a Chinese who doesn't scam people & call them 野蛮人 who're people who deserve to be scammed. If the trail leads to habitual white collar criminals like Xiaomi , Oppo , etc , it'd be a matter of time before Chinese share of India's mobile phone market goes to zero.FIR lodged in Noida over 'illegal export' of used phone chips to China, Hong Kong
The Noida Police have lodged an FIR and launched investigation into allegations of illegal export of chips of used smartphones in the garb of scrap from India to China and Hong Kong, officials said on Tuesday. The case allegedlynews.rediff.com
The Noida Police have lodged an FIR and launched investigation into allegations of illegal export of chips of used smartphones in the garb of scrap from India to China and Hong Kong, officials said on Tuesday.
The case allegedly pertains to fraud and evasion of tax as well as customs duty and is linked with a separate matter being investigated by the Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police related to the arrest of Chinese nationals who were found living illegally in India last year.
Two Chinese nationals and a Noida-based company have been named as accused in the case lodged at the Sector 63 police station of the city on the complaint of a sub-inspector of the UP Police's STF.
The Chinese nationals named in the case have been identified as Liu Rui and Liu Yuan while the Noida-based company is Roshan Electronic, according to the FIR accessed by PTI.
The complainant in the FIR claimed that used mobile phone chips were being �exported in cargo boxes which showed them as scrap material and sent in free sample category under the non-commercial group�.
"At least this firm alone must have exported goods worth Rs 2,000 crores, or 10,000-15,000 boxes and in each box, showing 15 to 50 kgs of goods as garbage, declaring them in the free sample category as non-commercial export," the complainant stated, adding that one kg comprises around 400 chips and in Indian terms, each chip is sold for Rs 3,000 to Rs 5,000 in markets of China and Hong Kong.
The STF official also suspected re-routing of money through Hawala back to India with "re-import of the same goods" by big mobile companies alleging "this is a very big international organised gang".
A senior UP Police officer told PTI that the STF had been probing this issue for over two months and now the registration of the FIR was recommended in this case.
The FIR has been lodged under the Indian Penal Code sections 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating), 467, 468, 471 (all related to forgery), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) and 120B (party to criminal conspiracy).
Charges under the Foreigners Act, 1946 have also been invoked in the case.
An officer of the Noida Police requesting anonymity said they have launched an investigation into the case. -- PTI
looks like every time we are discussing anything related urban development/re-development, we are getting stuck at local body financing model as bottle neck.
Money appears to be just one part of the problem chart.
