Well, it is high time we realised the problems of a centralised economy India has been pursuing since Nehruvian times following the European model of economy. Heavy investments were made in Mumbai by Central Government thereby making it financial capital of India and alas we now are in this pathetic situation where non-Maharashtrians are unofficially declared outsiders in Mumbai.
It is time now to move to a decentralised model of economy whereby Central Government, to start with, develops all states equally into economically sound engines of growth by pumping in investments and facilitating FDI.
To start with, Each state capital city in India should be provided with uniform infrastructure of world standards, job providing capacity and development opportunities. This will be a great step in reducing regional imbalances in growth and can to a large extent bring down the migration of labour from all India to metros like Mumbai. Instead migration will be more from each state to its own state capital than to a handful of metros like Mumbai.
Till then I guess we will keep hearing this kind of "son of soil" utterances from more states that have enjoyed higher investment from Central Government all these years.
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by mahesh girkar on Feb 12, 2008 04:27 PM Permalink
Which type of investment done by central govt. Central govt. only take money from Mumbai & disburs to kashmir, up & bihar only.
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by Vaibhav Nangare on Feb 12, 2008 04:30 PM Permalink
What Investments are you talking about. Mumbai is treated like Sone ke ande dene wali murgi. Rvenues are taken and distributed amongst UP and Bihar
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by murli nair on Feb 12, 2008 04:36 PM Permalink
This is the same complaints made by states like AP, Punjab etc. And i think they have a valid point. Centre should look after defence and foreign policy only. States should be given complete freedom inother spheres to develop and compete with each other and should have full control over their revenue.
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by Ninja Kirgi on Feb 12, 2008 04:28 PM Permalink
Muslims should believe in peaceful coexistence. They still think that they can rule the world. Unless the muslims start thinking straight they will be considered as terrorists worldwide and they will fall to their own mischiefs like what happened in Afganistan and is now happening in Pakistan.
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by murli nair on Feb 12, 2008 04:34 PM Permalink
Golden: I dont understand your ramblings very well, but i think you are giving a great religion like Islam a very bad name. If Islam means submission to God, then try to respect all God's creations, dont blindly hate other religions or mode of life, they are all creations of the same God.
