This is not a issue whether india has a worlds second density of road or not... The is here bangladesh.... bangladesh geographically is not as big as india... so bangladesh does not require that much road... just to remind you bangladesh has already enough roads... but need some bridges, fly over, and other sort of stuff to reduce time and better connectivity... nothing is happening here....
May i humbly ask when you say BD has enough roads then why new roads need to build for trasit??? It clearly says that either BD don't have enough connectivity the way you are suggesting ot the highway's are not good enough for trade....Now if these roads are not good enough for Indian trade then how come these roads are good enough for trade with in BD????
Just to show you how this amount will be used I am posting some part of the post..
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Do you think with $53.74 million hundreds of killometer of new road will be built???? Answer is no... even just to build the uttara to narayanganj by pass route in dhaka it will be cost around 2 to 3 billion dollar....
This kind of gives me an inclination that you di have roads but not good enough for trade. Am i right????
Here all the money will be used only for carpeting of the road to make it usable by the heavy indian trucks and cargos.... which bagladesh does not have or use... so total waste of money...
What??? BD do not have trucks and cargo's?? May i humbly ask how you guys are transporting goods from one part of the country to another??? Also don't you think that infrastructure is build once and give benefits for very very long time???? Why are you thinking only about present, why not future??? In about 30 years the projected benefit is about $2 billion dollars...so do you see that you got infrastructure and yet made profit out of it????
Just to give you an example - Connectivity b/w my home town Chandigarh and Delhi was not very good during my child hood days(roads were there but no expressways)...it used to take me little over 5 hours to reach Delhi....Today with expressway's that distance is now less than 4 hours....So in short less time of journey and more powerful roads for transportation....Do you honestly don't see any benefit????
I have seen people have lot of warmth for China but do people realize the chinese model of growth??? They build infrastructure first and then the rest of things follow....In a city of small population no one will think of making an international air-port but chinese...They will first build an Air-port, improve infrastructure and with in no time that area will boom with trade....My advice please ponder over this angle as well...
Second big investment is on rail network from the 2 ports to the routes to facilitate the transport of goods... From the Chittagong port ... rail route will be basically used to transport goods to NE india... this will hardly be used by bd... so another big waste of money...
What??? Do you know the importance of rail route in a country??? May be i am missing something but do you know that rail route is a less costly and more effective way of transportation...Are you saying that there is nothing to transport from Chittagong to different parts of BD which will fall under this route???? Also why looking only from trade perspective...what about travel by netizens???
Just wondering how much bd will use the mongla port rail route as bd usually do not use mongla port that much... So nothing big development for bd...
And reason's BD don't use it that much are????
N in ports bangladesh is already investing billions of dollars... so $129 million and $99 million for mongla port is just like a peanuts... will only be used for india...so benefit of bangladesh is a big question here...
Now you are contradicting yourself...Just above you were saying that BD don't use Mongla port that much and now you are saying that BD herself is putting in billions of dollars to update this fascility and complaining about the amount under this plan as peanuts. My advice please make up your mind...As far as i know Mongla port is economically very good for BD and that's the reason they are investing heavily in this, so whatever amount one gets in this regard is welcome....
This $2.3 billion calculation did not take in to account how much bd will loose business in the NE indian territory... already it is expected to boom under present condition... but if transit is given india will take over all the business... or will make it harder to export bd goods over there...
Then you are not well versed with the currect economy do's and dont's...... Protectionism is not healthy and will not help...Also this $2.3 billion is just talking about transit fee..it is not taking into account the jobs it will create in BD...it is not taking into account the development of the area, it is not taking into account the other indirect trade benefits that BD will get once this route flourishes...It is also not taking into account the potential of this route because it gives you connectivity with India, a very big consumer market with aspiration to improve the connectivity into your neighbours in the east....Buddy there is lot of potential here...My only advice broaden your horizon and see how much beneficial this move going to be....
N regarding terrorism... it is not necessary that they will come from transit check point in bd to target bangladesh.... if they feel that they are under attack and their security has been undermined they will held bd responsible for that.... n will do whatever it takes to cause harm to bd...If that happens who will pay all the damage which will be caused by that in bd???
Are you serious....You are suggesting that relations with India should not be improved otherwise terrorists will attack BD???? B/w this is trade route, how come terrorists are threatened by it???
After all these calculation is transit still beneficial for bd???
I do see benefits, you might not but i hope pondering over some of the points that i raised you might will....