To accommodate a large urban population, China has built more skyscrapers than the rest of the world combined. This keeps the urban cost of living down for rural migrants. India must do the same.
India will have to find its own answeres. Unlike China, it has not been able to move its rural workforce and train them to join urban ranks. So its jobs must also focus on rural sectors. That requires good education and skill development, which India has ignored.
@Vedic, it is evident that you have entered this conversation with a preconceived notion about the author. Can we bring the focus back to the message instead of the messenger? I think there is enough that we can find in this article that we can agree on - so let us talk about what can be, and needs to be done about it, rather than why we got here in the first place and who is to blame.
Lessons from history are important, but only to course correct, and not to impart blame. You will find in me a defender of culture and heritage - however, these are luxuries one can only indulge in when one is satiated with food, nutrition, and security (financial and physical) for their loved ones.
Rather than wait for governments to do anything, I am working on creating a lasting and scalable model of enablement and empowerment of the marginalized rural children, to self-learn (not wait to be educated by a non-functioning system) and help themselves to permanently escape lifelong poverty. I am doing this work through my Foundation, The Last Person. I have lived with the tribals in our rural areas, and seen the Canva-created picture depicted at the top of this article.
I am no left winger. I believe in corporate profits and free enterprise, unlike some of your kind which want to drag everyone down.
2. I am a great believer in the need for education and governance, irrespective of whether the government is left, right or centrist. Do you also believe in those two? Without them, this country -- or any other country -- is doomed. .
3. Whenever ideology overrules good economics, there is trouble. That is what happened when we leaned towards socialism, when logic decreed otherwise. This is happening again, when ideology has begun to replace common sense and economic prudence.
You can belong where you want. I am clear about what I want.
2.Who is against education? If you call the Congress and you other degenerates the harbingers of governance then India is really doomed. Those morons after decades of rule left India with an unnecessary mess.
3.What makes you think rebuilding destroyed Hindu heritage can’t coexist with economic growth? Its not a one or the other thing anywhere besides your left wing brain. Just like socialists destroyed the economy you want to destroy Hindu culture. Thats all you leftists do, destroy, destroy, destroy. Anarchy, anarchy, anarchy. Yet try and speak about governance.
"People are beginning to find the cost-of-living rise in urban areas, to the point of being unaffordable."
In India, Floor Space Index regulations limit the construction of high rise buildings, causing a high urban cost of living. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xx_0vbZC-U
To accommodate a large urban population, China has built more skyscrapers than the rest of the world combined. This keeps the urban cost of living down for rural migrants. India must do the same.
India will have to find its own answeres. Unlike China, it has not been able to move its rural workforce and train them to join urban ranks. So its jobs must also focus on rural sectors. That requires good education and skill development, which India has ignored.
You have to thank decades of Congress genius rule for FSI regulations and the dozens of others that have causes unnecessary poverty in India.
@Vedic, it is evident that you have entered this conversation with a preconceived notion about the author. Can we bring the focus back to the message instead of the messenger? I think there is enough that we can find in this article that we can agree on - so let us talk about what can be, and needs to be done about it, rather than why we got here in the first place and who is to blame.
Lessons from history are important, but only to course correct, and not to impart blame. You will find in me a defender of culture and heritage - however, these are luxuries one can only indulge in when one is satiated with food, nutrition, and security (financial and physical) for their loved ones.
Rather than wait for governments to do anything, I am working on creating a lasting and scalable model of enablement and empowerment of the marginalized rural children, to self-learn (not wait to be educated by a non-functioning system) and help themselves to permanently escape lifelong poverty. I am doing this work through my Foundation, The Last Person. I have lived with the tribals in our rural areas, and seen the Canva-created picture depicted at the top of this article.
If one wishes to learn more or join me, please start by reading my 10-year Vision Paper for the Foundation, at https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7115334875217342465/ and feel free to reach out via LinkedIn.
Didnt you left wing freaks run India to the ground under the Congress for decades. Maybe the ideology that needs to be thrown out is yours
You are wrong on three counts1. 1.
I am no left winger. I believe in corporate profits and free enterprise, unlike some of your kind which want to drag everyone down.
2. I am a great believer in the need for education and governance, irrespective of whether the government is left, right or centrist. Do you also believe in those two? Without them, this country -- or any other country -- is doomed. .
3. Whenever ideology overrules good economics, there is trouble. That is what happened when we leaned towards socialism, when logic decreed otherwise. This is happening again, when ideology has begun to replace common sense and economic prudence.
You can belong where you want. I am clear about what I want.
1.You are socially and culturally a left winger.
2.Who is against education? If you call the Congress and you other degenerates the harbingers of governance then India is really doomed. Those morons after decades of rule left India with an unnecessary mess.
3.What makes you think rebuilding destroyed Hindu heritage can’t coexist with economic growth? Its not a one or the other thing anywhere besides your left wing brain. Just like socialists destroyed the economy you want to destroy Hindu culture. Thats all you leftists do, destroy, destroy, destroy. Anarchy, anarchy, anarchy. Yet try and speak about governance.