Re: After Independence India has produced the biggest slums in the universe.
Guys guys, calm down. No mud-slinging here, don't drag each others' pants down. Just focus on the "slum" issue here, if you can't then I'll just close this thread.
Re: After Independence India has produced the biggest slums in the universe.
Nope its not Lahore, One of the best city in Asia and the best in South Asia is Islamabad
Top 25 of Asia.
- Fukuoka
- Tokyo
- Singapore
- Osaka
- Taipei
- Hong Kong
- Bandar Seri Begawan
- Kuala Lumpur
- George Town
- Pusan
- Seoul
- Kaohsiung
- Changmai
- Macau
- Shanghai
- Beijing
- Bangkok
- Davao City
- Hanoi
- Ho Chi Minh
- Kuching
- Cebu City
- Guangzhou
** 24. Islamabad ** - Metro Manila
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www.asiaweek.com
Eye witness account of our neighbor
Lessons from the neighbourhood
By INDIA TODAY Assistant Editor, Rohit Saran.
Riding along the 6-lane Motorway from Lahore to Islamabad, it is difficult to believe that you are in a country that is supposed to be falling apart. Connecting Pakistan’s capital with the nation’s largest industrial city, the 357-kilometer highway – called M2 – is as good and as efficient as the expressways in the US and turnpikes in Europe.
The average driving speed is 100 kilometers an hour and you stop only once in your journey – to pay Rs 200 toll (170 Indian Rupees). Its 74 bridges ensure that there are no road crossings. A dividing wall, between up and down-stream traffic, rules out eventualities of head-on traffic, and barbed fencing all along the M2 prevents any sideways movement. But dare not turn into a speed freaks. Toyota-borne highway patrols keep an agile eye on over-speeding.
The $1.16 billion (approximately 50,000 crore Indian Rupees) highway is Pakistan’s testimony that a Third World country can build – and maintain – a First World infrastructure. India’s Delhi-Agra highway, constructed after, doesn’t come close to the Lahore-Islamabad Motorway, either in construction or in maintenance.
India’s “collapsing” neighbour is ahead in other infrastructure too. It has surplus power, runs more efficient telephone services and the cities of Islamabad and Lahore are better kept than most Indian metropolitan cities. Dial the local telephone enquiry in Islamabad and the response will be quick and accurate – a rarity with Delhi’s MTNL telephone enquiry. Lahore’s street’s are better-lit and road instructions are more accurate than one would find in any Indian city. The canal that surrounds Lahore and most of its suburbs is many times cleaner than the Yamuna in Delhi.
Pakistanis enjoy better infrastructure because they pay a better price for it. A middle-class family spends anything between a third to a fourth of its monthly income on the three basic utilities of power, gas and telephone. Consequently, in 1999-2000 Pakistan spent just 0.4 per cent of its national income on subsidies, down from 1.1 per cent in 1990-91. During the same period, India’s subsidy bill has hovered around 3.1 per cent of its national income.
Interestingly – and instructively for the Indian policy makers – most of the subsidy cuts in Pakistan have happened in the past ten years when democratic governments were in power. A weaker democracy has produced bolder pricing reforms. One may argue that raising prices has been easier in Pakistan because poverty is not as acute there as it is in India. Pakistanis claim with pride that nobody dies of starvation in their country. While that is an exaggeration, the poorest of the poor in Pakistan are better off than the poorest of the poor in India – partly because Muslim society does not have the kind of caste system Hindu society is ridden with.
But lower poverty is not the only reason that made the task of subsidy cuts easier in Pakistan. Some of the critical lobbies in Pakistan are, somehow, not as unreasonable as they are in India. For instance, the agriculture lobby in Pakistan does not fight for low input prices (subsidised seeds, fertilisers, water). It fights for higher output (crop) prices. In India the farm lobby bleeds the government both ways, demanding – and getting – subsidised inputs as well as a remunerative price for output.
But Pakistan’s economic virtues begin and end with successful subsidy reduction and a relatively efficient infrastructure management. The country holds out many more lessons in economic mismanagement. Read all about them next week in ‘Warnings from the neighbourhood’.
Source
http://www.indiatoday.com/webexclusive/dispatch/20000513/saran.html
Re: After Independence India has produced the biggest slums in the universe.
Why Indians comment about Lahore when they haven’t been to Lahore even once.. Have they seen Faisal Town, Model Town, Gulberg -III and lot of new townships that are coming up? How about Lahore-Islamabad Highway? I dont think they have any highways like that in India yet.. Yaar Lahore Lahore ai! Lahore tan Pakistan da dil ai oye! Murders do happen but less than Delhi or Bombay or even Calcutta. RAW doesnt want to see Lahore become Hong Kong or Singapore thats why see so many murders 
Re: After Independence India has produced the biggest slums in the universe.
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Re: After Independence India has produced the biggest slums in the universe.
I told you guys to refrain from mud-slinging and focus on issue at hand, you guys failed so I am closing this thread 