Can they resist the allure of cheap labour? If yes then they will be able to, otherwise no.
Don't listen to nay-sayers too much man. Buy a few railways related stocks and enjoy the ride.
Bengal has never had a centrist/right of centre state govt; the commies were textbook left and the incumbent TMC is even further left biased. Nobody knows how a non left party, if eleceted at all, will perform - there is no precedent.
Bengal did had a Centrist party in the begining it was Congress but then Nehru's stepfatherly behaviour to Bengal along with the burden of refugees from East Pakistan/ Bangladesh and influence on Chinese Communism in the rural area ..gave Left Party as Populist Alternative to Congress that was seen as Elitist and Crony Capitalist.
It perform on the same formula of a hybrid system. Socialist welfare state for the needy and poor along with Business Friendly State to Corporates and Industries. Focus on building Infra along with cooperation with the Center Gov, control in corruption, strong measure on illegal migration are the stepping stones.
INC only pretended to be 'centrist'; they were (and continue to be; barring maybe PVNR's tenure) a left socialist party in practice. The Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee led commie govt of Bengal, post Jyoti Bose era, did attempt genuine liberalization and industrialization - especially after emerging victorious at the 2006 assembly polls. But the party ideologues fought tooth and nail to oppose the incumbent CM and his loyalists. Intense factionalism weakened the party, Mamata led TMC sensed an opportunity, staged some drama and started launching massive protests opposing land acquisition and large scale industrialization. Her agitation proved to be a killer blow for the commies, who got kicked out in the 2011 assembly polls and that sealed the fate of Bengal's economy.
It perform on the same formula of a hybrid system. Socialist welfare state for the needy and poor along with Business Friendly State to Corporates and Industries. Focus on building Infra along with cooperation with the Center Gov, control in corruption, strong measure on illegal migration are the stepping stones.
Odisha's terrain is not that flat as one thinks..it has hilly forest areas in its western part of the state. Most of the population lives on the coastal area. Odisha is doing good for its mining and mineral industry. Several companies like TATA, JSW etc has setup its steel production plants there along with PSU like Rourkela Steel Plant. There is a some tourism in the state especially around the Puri area for its Temple. Some IT jobs are in Bhubaneswar. MP has a decent Auto Manufacturing Industry along it being the biggest Wheat producer in the country. Yes lot of planned urban cities can be built in the Central part of India especially MP, Chhattisgarh , Odisha and Jharkhand. All these places are mostly forest areas with little inhabitation, earlier it used to be the fear of Naxals that prevented companies going in the area but now with good road/rail connectivity being set up more areas in these states should be urbanized and let folks from overpopulated Gangetic Plain stretching from UP to Bengal migrate and settle there.
I am talking about post-Independence Dr BC Roy's INC term..he was the most competent CM Bengal had. From IIT Kharagpur, Durgapur Steel Plant, Metro Rail in Calcutta etc were all his visions. INC become corrupt and left leaning during Siddharth Shankar Ray's time ( He was the one who advised Indira Gandhi to impose Emergency) in the 70s. After that Jyoti Basu came with all kinds of Populist Freebie promises and the State coffins became depleted along with Industries leaving towards Bombay and GJ.
That nay-sayer actually built Vande Bharat from grounds up, complete in-house engineering..no foreign jugaad or technology transfer. So maybe he does has a point.
My understanding is those 35k ICF coaches as refer by Mr Mani will be replaced by LHB coaches and these LHB coaches will be retrofitted with all the Vande Bharat like features. VB itself is built on the platform of LHB technology.
Despite relatively low car ownership, our cities are plagued by traffic jams
Land acquisition status?
Its already happening everyday. Not a single day goes by without some factory in india exploding or catching fire, killing a few labourers. We need better enforcement of safety regulations. A big cause of industrial fires in India is due to short circuits. Keep an eye for Gujarat. The state has seen a massive investment in chemical factories. The new ones seem fine, but the ones built in the 90s are ticking timebombs. India needs its own OSHA with proper enforcement. Sadly our corrupt police and governments will instead make life of factories hell without any enforcement and lead to them shutting down
