No new university in Hyderabad

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Re: No new university in Hyderabad

@kakaballi

^ No need to get personal bro. I need not write a book on economics. What I wrote has already been established in economics literature. It is well-established that income and wealth in-equalities create social ills. Taxation is considered a tool for redistribution of wealth, with a goal to increase welfare and development , reduce economic inequalities and create a cohesive society. The basic idea of progressive taxation (practiced in almost ALL developed countries) today is to take relatively more from the rich and give relatively more to the poor. I suggest you read up on it.

Cities like Faisalabad, Multan, Rawalpindi, etc are not really far behind Lahore in economic development and people from all over do not migrate to Lahore like crazy. The difference in situation between even Karachi and Hyderabad is huge, forget about cities and towns in interior Sindh. And yes, I would suggest spending more on Bhakkar, Lodhran, Rajanpur, toba-tek Singh and less on Lahore, Multan, or Pindi. That would eventually benefit everyone, including people from larger cities. As of now, almost all big landlords of interior Sindh have a house in Karachi and their children get educated in Karachi. They have no interest in developing their own areas.

I would always be a proponent of developing smaller cities to reduce the burden of migration on bigger cities and the cost of doing business in smaller towns.

About universities, most of the major US universities are located in smaller towns or suburbs, away from big cities. Please check the populations of the towns where top US universities are located and how many of them are in 10 biggest cities of USA. I would say that only one-third of top 20 US universities are in BIG cities. I wonder if they got it all wrong.

You might be saying this from your strong conviction that there has to be some efforts to uplift the small rural areas also and nothing wrong with that.

But I think you seem to have forgotten that the example of US does not apply at all to Pakistan.

US does not have such a large difference in cultures of people and there are no local politics of that degree which exists in Pakistan or related countries.

Some of US universities were built long time ago and the reasons for that are largely unknown why they were built in a particular city.

Lastly, here is the list of top 20 Universities in US.

Please name those 2/3rd of Universities in ‘small’ cities.

NY, NJ, Pittsburgh, Chicago, New Haven CT., Stanford, LA, Boston, Austin, Atlanta, Ann Arbor …are these small rural cities?

Top 20 Universities in United States

Remember, small cities of US are not so small either and commuting to those places is not like commuting between Pakistani large cities and rural areas.

The infrastructure and facilities are not so different between rural areas and cities of US either.