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How to develop bihar
Posted by Ashish Kumar on November 21, 2008 at 5:28am
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Friends, Bihar cannot be developed unless we create unique compititve
advantage of each district of bihar. So, i invite to share some of your bright
ideas as which districs should be focussed so as to create a business
compititive advantage of that district. We have to keep in mind that the funds
are low for development so the deistrict so chosen must have atleast a minimum
infrastrcture for development.
Please contribute your ideas.
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Permalink Reply by Dr.V.N.Sharma 23 hours ago
Dear Ashish,
This , in my view, will create further imbalance like a developed district will
get a chance for further development and unfortunate underdeleveloped will stay
put where they are. Therefore, I suggest that initially an overview of each of
the districts as a Unit for development must be taken into account and
district-wise strength and weakness analysis done. This will provide details of
infra-structure and raw materials availability, law and order problem standing
etc. Since the present Govt seem to be favourably disposed to development the
report can be put to the CM and discussed threadbare. Since it becomes a time
taking job entrepreneurs, in the meantime, may make a move forward based on
their own perception. If necessary the group members may assist them in getting
appropriate info for a particular locality of a dist.
Thanx
Dr.V.N.Sharma
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Permalink Reply by Ashish Kumar 21 hours ago
Dear Dr. Sharma,
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..
Dr.V.N.Sharma said: Dear Ashish,
This , in my view, will create further imbalance like a developed district will
get a chance for further development and unfortunate underdeleveloped will stay
put where they are. Therefore, I suggest that initially an overview of each of
the districts as a Unit for development must be taken into account and
district-wise strength and weakness analysis done. This will provide details of
infra-structure and raw materials availability, law and order problem standing
etc. Since the present Govt seem to be favourably disposed to development the
report can be put to the CM and discussed threadbare. Since it becomes a time
taking job entrepreneurs, in the meantime, may make a move forward based on
their own perception. If necessary the group members may assist them
appropriate info for a particular locality of a dist.
Thanx
Dr.V.N.Sharma
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