[Reader-list] The world’s cheapest car?

[siddharth sareen]

Actually, that particular point is a fairly true reflection of the real
state of affairs. Tata and Ashok Leyland are the two major private players
in the country who have any capacity whatsoever to build buses, but their
plant capacity is severely limited and nowhere near the kind of numbers we'd
need, especially if more BRT corridors are to come up and the quantities
that would be a requisite for a paradigm shift in urban transport were to be
demanded. The possibility has been explored in the past, but there's not
much incentive for the companies to develop such capacity, as compared to
faster delivery of more cars.

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On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear Rahul
>
> NANO or no NANO, for many on this List, Gujrat, TATA and India are all
> a NO-NO in which there cannot be any good aspects.
>
> What has surprised me though is that someone like Sunita Narain (otherwise
> deserving of admiration) should say something as downright stupid and
> ill-informed as :
>
> """""" Think also that the same Tata company, that has managed to roll out
> the car of our dreams in record time, does not possess the capacity to build
> the buses cities need. """"""
>
> In fact much of the tone and content of this piece by her makes me wonder
> whether she is going the "BLOWBACK" Arundhati Roy way of display of abject
> superficiality of intellect. That would be sad.
>
> Kshmendra
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 4/8/09, Rahul Asthana <rahul_capri at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: Rahul Asthana <rahul_capri at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] The world’s cheapest car?
> To: "Sanjay Kak" <kaksanjay at gmail.com>, "Rakesh Iyer" <
> rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Sarai Reader List" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 7:14 PM
>
> The writer doesn't take into account the intangibles accruing to
> Gujarat,Tata and India from this project.
>
>
> --- On Wed, 4/8/09, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Reader-list] The world’s cheapest car?
> > To: "Sanjay Kak" <kaksanjay at gmail.com>
> > Cc: "Sarai Reader List" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> > Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 5:01 PM
> > And instead of criticizing such subsidies, we have people
> > who instead
> > justify Modi's far-sightedness in bringing about
> > industrial
> > development to Gujarat. A very important article, and I
> > feel not only
> > this, but other kinds of data regarding pollution need to
> > be brought
> > in, so also the deteriorating effects these private
> > vehicles are
> > having on our health system.
> >
> > It would have been better had the Gujarat government had
> > instead
> > subsidized some public vehicle making plant, as that would
> > have
> > benefited all. Instead our governments are ready to do what
> > the US
> > govt generally does, bend down to the corporates. The day
> > we all lose
> > our money like this, probably doles would be given to
> > people without
> > guarantee to continue this capitalist system. And we will
> > go down the
> > drain sooner or later like the US has if we continue with
> > this.
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Siddharth.