Travelling on the Vivek Express

A train that connects all Indians

Jan 27th 2012, 17:32 by The Economist online

OUR South Asia bureau chief spends 83 hours on the train that links India's dusty north east to its verdant south and meets some of its passengers

All aboard the Vivek Express

Jan 29th 2012, 18:24

Promoting India’s infrastructure is the main policy of prime minister Manmohann Singh for showing their advantages and for the multiple kinds of provinces. Of course, the better transportation can bring the stronger power of the state.

In this month, Japan’s Yukio Edano met the counterpart Tamil Nadu, Selvi Jayalalithaa for the stronger tie of bilateral relation. From the point of infrastructure, Japan’s vice transport minister Takashi Kitamura said nothing is as suitable as the Shinkansen for India's infrastructure buildup. Generally, Mr. Edano is inclined to be against the expansion of China so there is few question of Edano’s pose. But and also, Shinkansen is de facto the safest one in the world. Ha, the well-designed system let me once suggest to China’s next prime minister Li Ke-qiang that this system should be taken and bid in case of the kind of last summer’s train disaster.

From this audio’s report, India rapid transformation make herself well-organized and systematically develop more in order to sustain the high economic growth. People in India can be taught through the expansion of railway. This audio can help guess the future of India’s politics and economics. By the way, I don’t surprise how the Economist tends to agree with India’s transportation maybe because the editorial wants to compare with China’s one, resembling Japanese Democratic Party of Japan's attitude.

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筆者還記得影片內容是說光禿禿的一片問題，但是當局開始在這片土地（兩個車站間約車程50-60km/hr 三個多小時）作大建設和衛星都市規劃。其實這裡雨季有一些會漂雨，光禿禿是指經濟本來很差，包括農業也發展不太起來，但是和新德里和班加羅爾來說，可以形成三塊連起來是正三角形的態勢。印度當時正想作自給自足的研發，這項工程是其中之一，可惜當年執政黨印度國大黨爆發貪汙甚劇，和這附近的開發也有關係，因此後來雖有大建設形成，但總體質的成效不彰，工業區沒有太多先進廠商進駐。不過大部份來說，筆者藉當時的最近日本及中國高官往返來猜，在獨立的技術和完善工業或商業特區的市場規畫兩方面來說還很幼稚，今天的印度其實還在這些方面有待加強。