How to speed up Economic growth in the country?

        Bikash Choudhury

  Mumbai and Kolkata are two metros notorious for abysmal standards of
roads that consume road users in flesh and blood and at the same time
guzzle disproportionately high amount of fuel and rubber in
automobiles. There is high probability of these savings can be
reflected in the growth numbers of the country as it did earlier after
2004 on the back of two very successful Infra development programs
viz., Pradhan Mantri Gramya Sadak Yojana and Golden Quadrilateral
Project. Mumbai city has 1889 K.M of roads totally and 90% of those
roads are in pitiable condition on top of it the vehicle population in
the city has swelled to 23.3 lakhs and that tests the robustness of
automobile and its driver and passenger and eventually takes a heavy
toll on the economic life of the city. Identical condition prevail in
the city of Joy Kolkata and this challenges can be turned into an
opportunity for the National economy if this were converted into world
class roads in 18 months time as the gigantic scale of operation for
road construction would kick in the numbers. NDA Govt. should become
proactive and crack the whip to bring around the Civic body of Mumbai,
Maharsatra State Govt. and Private Industry operating from the city to
pool in the necessary resources and technology to give shape to the
biggest infra project in a short period of time. Our activist prime
minister should look at the road project of Mumbai and Kolkata to perk
up the reputation and image of his Govt. in very short period of time.