Dear Dr. Thakur, , Thanks a lot for sharing your view. You have outlined the analysis part quiet well. But that's the begining stage and presently the government bodies and many other institutions are already involved in it. But what I would like to stress upon is, that if we concentrate on the entire state at once then we may be distributing the entire energy and fundings in putting the things at place, so by the time such the development will begin the government will change and we will be pretty much struck where we started. The problem is multi-dimensional. In my view it would be better to focus on a set of districts which can be developed more rapidly. Then use the growth of these districts to fund the development of other so called 'quasi infrasturcture available' districts. In this way these second set of districts will give rise to complementary economies to the first set of districts and this growth then be further channeled into other less developed or not at all developed districts. This is not something new, this is how India is developing.. By analysing the strength, weekness, oppurtunity and threat of each district we can build a credible outline as how much time it will take to develop each district. Strength and weekness of each district can be easily calculated but the oppurtunity and threat are not so lucid to enunciate. As we do not only have threat from the criminals or naxals but we have economic threat emanating from other states as well. Our products or services should be credible and lucrative, as well as economical, so that the government does not have to bear the cost of subsidy. Now enough of talking, let me share some of the ideas on Patna. Since I am from Patna, i know it better than other districts
Strength: a. Capital of Bihar b. All the Executive, Administrative and Judicairy headoffices are located here. there are many more... now coming to the point... c. It has mainly service based economy. d. education sector is the single largest revenue generator. e. center of trade f. high number of mobile subscribers g. fastest growing mobile economy in india. h. fastest emerging FMCG market i. on the line of becoming the Metro city. Weekness: a. Criminals and Anti social elements, political protests and all the political rubbish b. Mismanagement of almost all the infrasturctures i.e. urban, social, environmental etc. c. Quiet dormant status of Bihar chamber of commerce d. Walled garden approach to the local economy. e. People are hesistent to try new services f. Patna has highest per capita district domestic product income but inspite of that the openness of the financial institutions in giving loans for further devlopemnt or starting new lucrative schemes is negligible. There are many more, but i wont discuss as my goal is not to count the weeknesses but development of bihar Oppurtunity a. Can become a hub of educational services in India, the need is for starting various research organisations. b. The software services can give a much needed boost to the economy the need is for deveopling self employment among the youth and help them in starting software firms in Patna. As the firms from outside the state are reluctant to invest. c. Mobile economy can put us in sky, the need is to provide subsidy, but there is a technical glitch here i dont know if the state government can provide concessions or subsidy to telcom services? As telecom services are under central government. d. An exellant place for starting large scale fishing industry. e. Can become a hub for second hand vehicle markets owing to the fact that the vehicale density of Patna is at par with other developed cities in India. f. Need to make both land and water tourism popular. g. Creating efficient value chains for agro economic activity such that almost 10% of the grains are detroyed every year due to inefficient channeling. h. more shopping malls are needed for better channeling of money. i. It can be deveoped as solar energy hub j. efficient manure and waste utilsation can make us further energy independent k. Bihar chamber of commerce should be given more executive power and should be made a quasi executive body to promote the trade. l. service providers should be encouraged to open more such centers. m. efficient rail commerce with better equipments can give a good thrust to the local service economy n. can be developed as a hub of airline industry due to its strategic location o. the elcetronics and mehanical industry of patna can be encoraged for mass production of cheap cousumer goods p. can become the startegic testing and development ground for light weight combat motor boats. Threats a. Change of government may mar all the developemnt b. development of other B level cities like kota may pose significant threat to education economy c. development of service industry other nearby cities like Varanasi, Ranchi, darjling etc. may snatch the servcie devopment. e. The presence of chinese goods smuggled through nepal is a serious threat to elcetronics industry of patna. There are many more of such factors. Please contribute about your district also, so that one day we all can see the developed Bihar. Regards Ashish.. On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Dr.Dhanakar Thakur <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Since Patna is one of the richest city of India (as per your mail), > one should invest in poorer regions which are many rather almost all areas > north of Ganga. > It is a matter of sorrow that being self constituency driven in and around > Patna IIT,IIM, Pharma institue etc. are being opened on the false pretext of > one or other. > > *Dr. Dhanakar Thakur* > > --- On *Wed, 3/12/08, bala sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote: > > From: bala sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Time to act > To: bihar-network@yahoogroups.com > Date: Wednesday, 3 December, 2008, 7:15 PM > > > All, the only useful act we can do is to invest money (£,$, euros, Rs) into > Bihar. > > Who in this group is willing to invest in new, young, firms? Who is willing > to setup new firms in Patna? This will create jobs, opportunities. Without > this, there will be no development. Patna is one of the richest cities in > India when measured in terms of per capita income. Its on Wikipedia, pls > check. > > Areas that Bihar needs investment in outlined by the Government of Bihar in > their website. Helping young, talented, people through funds is the only way > to retain intellectual capital and increase employment. > > Bala Sinha > > > > ------------------------------ > Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them > now.<http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_messenger_6/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/> > > >
