Till yesterday this phrase was just another one written on trucks in India, but today i realize the true meaning of it...you have made the country proud...it is with a huge surge of pride that i say today--"MERA BHARAT TRULY MAHAAN!"
Are you hinting at any of these: 1. Crowdsourcing the modding process to make odd and funny additions/subtractions to the design by individuals or garages (DC - dilip chhabria)? 2. Crowdsourcing add-on combinations or co-operative marketing like Car laptop or car iphone or car Walky or car wireless? 3. Poor man's ("manual labour") _pedalled_ (not peddling) car? 4. A solar cell covered exterior for the Nano? 5. A Nano running on Carbon Nanotube-based fuel? 6. A reward-based design-improvisation challenge like they have in the software industry? 7. Nano-wikinomics to replace macroeconomics? 8. Nano retail fast food outlets all over the highway network? 9. Nano rear-of-the-seat TV for the rest of the family 10. Or are you referring to ages-old utopian share-a-car to save the city. 11. Or are you thinking of co-operatives which purchase Nanos collectively for new services like "Nano-delivery cart" - shop at rediff, ship at "Nano-coop" which means some guys pool in cash and buy a Nano for doing delivery of goods to local clients?
All these are pretty old ideas outside of India. Do you really think these things will work, here in India? I doubt it. In fact, I assure you this won't work. We're "conservative" at best. At worst, we're Saas-Bahu-hungry narrow-minded fools. Count me out of this argument. What's _your_ message? How I wish I could say "Tata to old economics" and "Hello Nano!" to new wikinomics. Sadly, that's Utopian.
RE:Hows my !dea
by ramkrishna on Jan 11, 2008 03:13 PM Permalink
nice idea , not only in bangaloer all over the world - small taxi from dubai to singapore every where we can use , fantastic
I salute Mr TATA for his contribution to Indian life. I would like to remind the car industry ,the way they are fleecing the Indian customers. In sixties the car pricing was controlled and 14 %return of capital was allowed (supreme court ruling). One fine day under the decontrolled regime ,prices started zooming .Today ,whether it is cars or medicines the manufacturers are taking us for a ride.
I fail to understand the vision or logic behind the 1 Lakh car apart from just making it affordable to more Indian people. But then why now ? why not in the 60's or 70's did they build a affordable car for common man.
Today more than cars India needs good roads , good public transport system in cities. the challenges to build a good public transport are far bigger and complex than to build a 1 lakh car.
Agreed more people should be able to have the pleasure of owning a car but not at a time when the country is seeing an explosion in car population and worst vehicle pollution.
City roads are jammed and no one is getting a better public transport but press is lauding a car ?
Where is the space for so many cars on roads ?
I think this sounds more like an ego expansion then a vision.
RE:What vision ?
by RAj Kumar on Jan 11, 2008 03:04 PM Permalink
Please put your CAR/ BIke /Bicycle off and go in public transport and then make such comments. Then raise your voice against the tax amount misused by the goverment. Meanwhile raise your voice against the corruption. You comment so easily with out thought, i feel you never voted to effect the required above change.
RE:What vision ?
by Cooldude on Jan 11, 2008 03:03 PM Permalink
There was a license Raj till Mrs Indira Gandhi died..The license raj actually came to an end only when Manmohan Singh was the FM. Do you remember that we had to pay black price for a bajaj scooter?? Also we had to wait years in line for a telephone connection. The list could go on. That is precisely the reason. I hope it clarifies.
RE:What vision ?
by Tridib Kalita on Jan 11, 2008 03:18 PM Permalink
This "Sincere Citizens" are root of India's problem. Because they are not happy until they end up talking about PROBLEMS.
RE:What vision ?
by satyendra prabhu on Jan 11, 2008 03:05 PM Permalink
Oh shut up.... enough has been said that it will add to pollution, traffic etc etc. The Indian private sector has responded to the needs of the common man...let the Govt of India wake up at last and address the problems of pollution and infrastructure ....why are we paying taxes for....Vrinda
RE:What vision ?
by lava Sama on Jan 11, 2008 03:10 PM Permalink
The easiest way to ridicule the effort taken by Tata. You as a citizen did not elect representatives who would put their mind and build roads and parking lots for the common good of all people. To say TATA's 1 Lakh car will make the road more congested is plain stupid. The roads are congested because they are not planned well by the beaurocrats and elected respresentatives. They have no vision. Mr. Rata is a visionary and he has made the most vaunted dream of all Indians affordable. Reliance did that in Telecom and TATA's have done it in Automobiles (Though I am not definitely equating them). I am sure both will succeed in the globalised scenario.
RE:RE:What vision ?
by Sreecharan S on Jan 11, 2008 03:12 PM Permalink
it wont help becoz people will prop up their salaries and everybody would be earning Rs 1 lakh per month
RE:What vision ?
by srinivas on Jan 11, 2008 03:00 PM Permalink
boss building roads is not the responsibility of tata's
tata's have mede the country proud.
you call yourseld as sincere citizen, can you tell me how many times you have participated in building a road it is easy to be critic than work and deliver.
Ratan TATA had done excellent job but this car will reach to comman man of India?? i dont hink so, becoz rich people will buy this car in numbers and there will be log waiting for commn man
RE:Rs 1 lakh CAR
by Tridib Kalita on Jan 11, 2008 03:23 PM Permalink
Do you mean Rich people have no other jobs? Have they done it with MAruti800 or Hero Honda Motorcyles?
tody top MNC company traget for high margin and profits.they dont think for middle class people & poor people service. TATA products are serve low class to high class.every product have value for money.
India has everything like reources, manpower, skill, grit, ambition etc., but still we are devlopping Y?
It is just becuase of short sightedness of our RULERS. Just to be in power, and make money they curtiled every positive devlopment, they dicouraged ENTERPRONUERS with red tapism.
If atleast few politicians would have sad ' PROMISE IS A PROMISE' like how TATA said, WE eould have been different!!
RE:India
by Vineet Tandon on Jan 11, 2008 02:59 PM Permalink
India is no more a developing country. It has now been classified as a transforming country
As Dr APJ Abdulkalam said, Dream is one not you feel in the sleep, but Dream is one which makes you sleepless. Yes, this is what Ratan Tata did, not just for India, but for the whole world.
