Every single one of the points are a real problem.
But your understanding is broken, let me explain. :)
Norway has 55 lakh people. Total. That’s smaller than the population of Pune. Their entire country has fewer citizens than India’s 25 smallest cities individually. Norway also has 1.2 trillion dollars in sovereign wealth from oil reserves, accumulated over 50 years.
They have $250,000 per citizen sitting in the fund. India has roughly $3,400 per citizen in forex reserves.
Norway is what you get when a small population sits on top of one of the largest per-capita oil discoveries in human history.
The right comparison is other low-income, high-population, post-colonial democracies. Brazil. Indonesia. Nigeria. Bangladesh. Pakistan. Egypt. Mexico. South Africa. Vietnam. Philippines.
Compare on these and India isn’t doing badly. It’s doing better than most.
UPI is the world’s largest real-time payments system.
Aadhaar is the world’s largest biometric identity system.
We absorbed the global pandemic, the Ukraine war, the West Asia conflict, Trump’s tariffs, the Iran war, and a rupee fall without going into recession.
Most of those countries above did. Pakistan went to the IMF 24 times. Sri Lanka collapsed. Bangladesh is unstable. Egypt needed emergency Gulf bailouts. Argentina has 60% inflation. We stayed standing.
India is the only country in human history to add a trillion dollars of GDP every 18 months. We added our first trillion in 2007. Our second in 2017. Our third in 2024. Our fourth coming in 2026.
The problems you mentioned exist in every large, low-income, high-density country on earth.
Mexico City’s pollution is worse than Delhi’s.
Manila’s traffic is worse than Mumbai’s.
Lagos has worse road quality than Delhi.
Jakarta has worse air than Delhi.
Cairo has worse adulteration.
Karachi has more corruption.
Hanoi has higher pollution.
None of these countries are run by Modi. They’re all dealing with the same impossible math.
Industrialising a country of 145 crore people during a global energy transition, with limited natural resources, while keeping democracy intact, is the single hardest governance challenge in human history.
> China did it without democracy.
> South Korea did it with a population one-tenth our size.
> Japan did it with no major religious or linguistic diversity.
> Singapore did it with 50 lakh people total.
Nobody has done it at India’s scale, with our diversity, in democratic conditions.
So when someone asks “why hasn’t Modi built one city like Norway,” the answer is because building one Norway requires not having 144.5 crore other Indians to look after.
Go tell your Prime Minister Mr. Modi to build just one city like Norway,
where people get these facilities:
- Corruption-free
- Pollution-free
- Food free from adulteration
- Best quality roads and flyovers
- Best quality education with no paper leaks
- Proper treatment in hospitals without medical mafia loot
- At least basic facilities for common people
It’s okay if he does not hold press conferences, because if he does, the public will definitely ask all these questions.
That is why Mr. Modi runs away and does not want to answer.
Hello Lyng,
Since Mr. Modi became the Prime Minister of India,
you people tell me - which city in India is pollution-free and corruption-free,
where adulterated food is not sold?
Has Mr. Modi created any such city after coming to power?
I am not talking about cities or villages that were already better before,
like many people mentioned South India and Jammu & Kashmir - those places are naturally better and pollution-free.
Now talk about Delhi, the capital of India.
India has a population of 1.3 billion,
a 4 trillion-dollar economy,
and was once considered one of the world’s most developed civilizations.
In the capital city Delhi:
- Are people getting clean air?
- Are people getting food without adulteration?
- Are the roads good?
- Has corruption ended?
- Are people getting proper treatment in hospitals?
If all these things are not happening,
then what has Prime Minister Modi been doing for the last 12 years?
He has not even made his own capital an example for the world.
Delhi’s pollution is famous around the world.
Many people say that population does not allow India to progress. In fact, if there is a right leadership, then by using population as a weapon, it can become the number one country in the world, which will be the safest country in the world.
Where corruption, pollution, medical mafia, top exam Exam paper leak can never happen.