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Jun 13
1:4 is the ratio between Elon Musk's wealth and India's GDP while its 1:14 if factoring India's cumulative assets.
Imagine the wealth makers we could have created if we had set the ground suitable to flourishing by decentralising. We now risk growing old before growing rich.
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Jun 13
"The" problem all our cities face. A disgusting birth tag to have when these cities actually battle with other global megacities.
Jun 10
Delhi’s message to Hyderabad seems clear: Pay taxes, drive economic growth, create jobs, vote during elections, but don’t expect timely approval for critical infrastructure. Cooperative federalism shouldn’t mean states cooperate while the Centre procrastinates.
If Hyderabad Metro Phase-2 was unviable, say so. If there are objections, reveal them. But keeping one of India’s fastest-growing cities waiting indefinitely is neither governance nor development. It is administrative negligence.
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Decentralised India retweeted
People must understand that for every city in India, their state government is the central government and the union government is a super central government.
Many states that fight for federalism from the union government want to keep their cities under the same chain that they are fighting to free themselves from.
What we need What we got
This will never happen without freeing Chennai from the control of Tamil Nadu state government.
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Uttar Pradesh Created 110 New Cities In Seven Years. It forgot To Govern Them. Does this sound familiar?
Indian cities need decentralize governance, centralising it from the state capital has proved disastrous all around india.
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Decentralization means different people trying different approaches to solve the same problem. This allows solutions to emerge at a much faster pace, while enabling others to replicate successes and learn from failures.
Centralization often relies on a single, top-down approach, which can be inefficient, time consuming, and wasteful of resources.
Decentralization is path to prosperity.
Jun 12
The beauty of more decentralisation is that you get many already piloted projects which can be readily and freely replicated and scaled in other places. @prasannavishy @americakaran @RishiJoeSanu
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Jun 12
When normal citizens don't own their localities, the so called authorities and Special Vehicles feel entitled to wield an iron fist to act like it’s their land and everyone else is subordinate.
Why claim the central government to be fascist when your fruits are the same?
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Jun 10
This image sends a signal - "pedestrians be damned. We can't be bothered about you, and if some of you bump into vehicles because you are forced to walk on the road, that's ok". BWSSB does this with impunity. Other cities tackle this by making infra companies work as contractors to the city and setting clear conditions for work whereas we give them a parallel track as an agent of the state government. We should do that too. In fact, that's what the law requires. @comm_blr_south
The slow pace of work is a complication. People will put up with some of this if we reach global standards in speed of infra development. But we're clearly the slowest among the major economies in this - things that take days and weeks elsewhere take months and years in our cities. Those in charge are generalists, and they don't have the industry knowledge to do this better. The contracting is also poor and dodgy ... all this up and this is what we get.
Competence matters.
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Join the movement! x.com/DecentInd and whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbD…
Jun 10
India’s problems are more fixable than we think. The mindset needs to shift from, “Look at this government - it’s not my problem, it’s theirs,” to, “It’s my problem too. Let me do my part to fix it.”
Nations change when citizens stop outsourcing responsibility and start taking ownership.
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The beauty of more decentralisation is that you get many already piloted projects which can be readily and freely replicated and scaled in other places. @prasannavishy @americakaran @RishiJoeSanu
Jun 10
18 cities getting water metro systems. Draft National Water Metro Policy is out.
• Phase 1: Guwahati, Srinagar, Patna, Varanasi, Ayodhya, Prayagraj
• Based on Kochi model — 38 boats, 38 stops, ₹747 crore total
• A single metro rail line costs more per km than Kochi's entire water metro system
• No land acquisition. No tunnelling. Boats on rivers that already exist
• India has 14,500 km navigable inland waterways sitting underused
Best part? It's boring. No prestige architect, no signature station. Just cheap public transport that tier-2 cities can actually afford. The most scalable infra is the kind nobody tweets about.
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Decentralised India retweeted
centralisation is the root cause of corruption in the country
there is no need for central govt and it's babus
dismantle it @DecentInd
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Jun 11
Chairing the 11th meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog.
Guided by the spirit of cooperative federalism, we are working together to accelerate India’s development journey. The collective efforts of the Centre and States will play a pivotal role in realising our shared vision of Viksit Bharat.
@NITIAayog
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Jun 11
Just imagine the time wasted for meetings, calculations and schemings just because the central government wants to heavily tax the oxygen of India's economy.
Decentralise pricing to market forces so competition can get the public cheap and quality fuel in a sustainable manner.
The government provided Rs 1.23 lakh crore to oil marketing companies to help keep #petrol and #diesel prices unchanged for 78 days following the outbreak of the #MiddleEast crisis, as per reports citing sources.
Know more 🔗toi.in/84uWQZ21
The story doesn’t end here — continue on the TOI App 👉 timesofindia.sng.link/Cqhd4/…
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According to "Skin in the Game" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, advice from ‘experts’ who are not personally invested in the subject or have nothing to lose, is not worth. Decentralisation grounds responsibility and accountability.
May 29
Dharmendra Pradhan's son
is studying in America, so did Nirmala's and Jyotiraditya.
Piyush Goyal's son is studying in Singapore, Anurag Thakur's son is studying in Canada.
S. Jaishankar's son is studying in the UK & even Smriti Irani (who hardly studied) sent son to study there.
Nishikant Dubey's son studied in Scotland
So why would these people bother about NEET paper leak
or CBSE scam or communal distortion of history by NCERT?
Or care about your children getting pushed around in trains and buses or even committing suicide?
Government of Hypocrites from Top to Bottom!!
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Jun 10
Most of the liberal arts and social science programmes are filled with left leaning literary frameworks which do the opposite of what it literary is (~liberal).
Parents of younger learners and adult learners are trapped in a centralised curriculum that in inflexible to the demands of the present and future.
Jun 8
Marx-influenced literary criticism is a dominant mode of analysis in nearly all English depts...even the non-Marxists reach for Marxian concepts–class, ideology, alienation, commodification–when analyzing texts.
What would a Hayekian literary criticism look like? marginalrevolution.com/margi…
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Decentralised India retweeted
Mumbai does not have the largest municipal budget in Asia. Tokyo and several Chinese cities have much larger municipal budgets.
Even if you account for corruption, Mumbai's effective budget is only around $5–6 billion. For a city with an economy exceeding $200 billion, that's quite abysmal.
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Sir M. Visvesvaraya, India's trailblazer in infrastructure and commerce, built his legendary legacy through #decentralization. Over a century ago, he championed this approach, yet since then, India has moved in the opposite direction by slowing progress instead. Explore the five-part thread to understand his vision.
He delegated Diwan (Prime Minister of Mysore) tasks & decentralized local functions to focus on his strengths, ensuring the state ran smoothly. Instead of micromanaging, he created autonomous boards for education, commerce, agriculture—with district committees (he even created an "Efficiency Audit" branch within the government).
Every project had strict KPIs 🎯.
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ALT Courtesy: @sureshpprabhu
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The Co-Matching Principle 💰:
If a village/district wanted to build a school, well, or road → government didn't pay fully.
State gave matching grant ONLY if locals raised part of funds via taxes/donations.
Result: "Skin in the game" → efficient management corruption rooted out.
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The District Progress Reports 📊:
Sir MV required every District Commissioner to publish public Annual Economic Reports.
Data included: literacy gains, factory openings, agricultural output.
Public data → districts competed for state-matching grants → development shifted from capital to regional leaders.
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Comment similar tendencies you have heard about pre-independence India.
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Jun 6
It is not the origins of poverty which need to be explained. What requires explaining are the things that created and sustained higher standards of living.
T. Sowell
A modern train passes through the slums of Delhi, the capital of India
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