Bikash Choudhury
Patia is a small hamlet of Bhubaneswar which has recently seen both
vertical and horizontal transformation. This locality of the city has attained
stardom with the inception and growth of private University KIIT that supports
over 20,000 students from across the country and abroad. Prime Minister and
Presidents and captains of Industry visit this area while visiting the KIIT
University Campus. In last six months this locality has seen a dip drop in
house rents and thousands of properties looking for customers at the same time.
The booming Real Estate Sector and Education Industry now languish with very
poor demand. Job prospects for young professionals not looking all that bright.
And, story apparently not much different all across the country. Strange and
surprise is in spite of new central Govt. taking some very good initiatives not
much has changed on the ground since the
days of UPA and it seems the result of
good economics may take another 18 months to see the light of the day.
Apparently, Govt. has not taken a bold move to capture some low hanging fruits
like say operalisation of multi brand retail policy taken by previous UPA Govt.
and public sector reforms. At least Govt. could leave it to the better judgment
of State Govt. On multi brand retail and
chop and chew that public sector which are guzzling public money and produce
very little. Union Govt. has ushered in the Digital India program; however, it
has not till date pull up the useless BSNL to speed up the broad band speed;
most of the time in a city like Bhubaneswar you only get a speed of 10 KBPS
against a promise of 100 KBPS. Why this problem can’t be fixed immediately? If
this problem were fixed in short term, then union Govt. would look good and economy
also would pick up speed. Recently, Mumbai
City was under water and
its life lines disrupted; how long this city has to wait for good roads and
rain water evacuation arrangement? Mumbai city apparently contribute about
25-30% of Union Govt. revenue which ask for basic infrastructure restored. If
Chinese can build 44 K.M long sea bridge in 4 years; can’t we build world class
roads for Mumbai in 18 months? NDA Govt. got a boot in 2004 for India Shining
campaign and once again it can be striped of power in 2019 if it does not
deliver in the short run. Fix it Mr. Prime Minister.
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