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[UKBengali]

Highway per capita is a useless measure!

What good is five thousand kilometres of roads - if it’s only within the reach of 20% of the population?

Access gives you true measure.

Far too much of Indian population is only reachable via dirt roads.

Hardly anyone in BD by comparison.

That’s the true measure!

The true scale of what is happening in BD is simply mindblowing in some ways.

The two most important cities after Dhaka are Chittagong and Sylhet.

Dhaka-Chittagong 8-lane highway project is either started or will start soon and work to upgrade the Dhaka-Sylhet highway to 6 lanes started more than a year ago.

Once completed you can literally drive to either of these 2 cities from Dhaka in around 2-2.5 hours.

Remember these two cities are at the extremis ends of BD and Dhaka is in the centre!

 

[KimExit]

Highway per capita is a useless measure!

What good is five thousand kilometres of roads - if it’s only within the reach of 20% of the population?

Access gives you true measure.

Far too much of Indian population is only reachable via dirt roads.

Hardly anyone in BD by comparison.

That’s the true measure!

LOL. Highways are literally build to connect people.

Why would any highway be built which is difficult to access and cannot be used by the public ?

To even suggest such an absurd idea defies common sense and logic.

As of Dec 2024, India has the largest road network in the world.

Road density in India is 1.94 km per square kilometer of land.

Road density in bangladesh is 1.66 km per square kilometer of land.

Road density in United States (0.71 km), China (0.54 km).

And these are proper concrete or tar roads, not dirt roads.

 

[BananaRepublic]

The true scale of what is happening in BD is simply mindblowing in some ways.

The two most important cities after Dhaka are Chittagong and Sylhet.

Dhaka-Chittagong 8-lane highway project is either started or will start soon and work to upgrade the Dhaka-Sylhet highway to 6 lanes started more than a year ago.

Once completed you can literally drive to either of these 2 cities from Dhaka in around 2-2.5 hours.

Remember these two cities are at the extremis ends of BD and Dhaka is in the centre!

Covid showed how important road access is.

Whilst Bangladeshis reached their villages within hours of covid lockdown - millions of India’s unwashed were abandoned by the roadside by Modi. Thousands starved by the roadside.

What good was per capita road?

 

[KimExit]

Meaningless as BD is a much denser country(around 3 times less dense than India) and your figures prove that BD has better highway access for the population than India.

LOL. Why don't you first learn what PER CAPITA MEANS

It literally means PER PERSON. Density does not matter.

Density only matters if the measure is Roads per sq. km and guess what ? India beats bangladesh in that too.

 

[UKBengali]

Covid showed how important road access is.

Whilst Bangladeshis reached their villages within hours of covid lockdown - millions of India’s unwashed were abandoned by the roadside by Modi. Thousands starved by the roadside.

What good was per capita road?

No idea why we have an Indian poster still thinking that there is any "race" between BD and India in infrastructure.

India is like 20 times larger and so of course its infrastructure cannot have the same high quality and dense almost universal coverage.

 

[BananaRepublic]

LOL. Highways are literally build to connect people.

Why would any highway be built which is difficult to access and cannot be used by the public ?

To even suggest such an absurd idea defies common sense and logic.

As of Dec 2024, India has the largest road network in the world.

Road density in India is 1.94 km per square kilometer of land.

Road density in bangladesh is 1.66 km per square kilometer of land.

Road density in United States (0.71 km), China (0.54 km).

And these are proper concrete or tar roads, not dirt roads.

I will try to explain this one more time to you. Maybe @SoulSpokesman and @Joe Shearer will have better luck explaining something as simple as this.

Roads per capita and density is useless.

Access is key - something that can be easily gleaned from satellite imagery.

Just see what percentage of Indians are only accessible via dirt roads and what percentage live within few miles of a highway.

Then compare that to Bangladesh.

I can assure you 80% of Bangladeshis live within 10 miles of a highway.

I can also assure you the number for India will be significantly lower.

 

[KimExit]

This shows the rote learning qualities of some posters lol

My professors at uni would have shouted at us and demanded insight!

One of them would literally chuck stuff in bins lol

You make a good point.

Road density in India is 1.94 km per square kilometer of land.

Road density in bangladesh is 1.66 km per square kilometer of land.

Population density of India is 479.43 inhabitants per square kilometer.

Population density of bangladesh is 1,265 inhabitants per square kilometer.

Which means BD is 2.64 times MORE densely poupulated than India.

So for BD to reach Indian road density of 1.94 per capita, it needs to have a road density of 1.94 x 2.64 = 5.12 km per square kilometer of land.

What BD has is 1.66 km per square kilometer of land.

So mathematically bangladesh road density is literally 33% of India.


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[KimExit]

I will try to explain this one more time to you. Maybe @SoulSpokesman and @Joe Shearer will have better luck explaining something as simple as this.

Roads per capita and density is useless.

Access is key - something that can be easily gleaned from satellite imagery.

Just see what percentage of Indians are only accessible via dirt roads and what percentage live within few miles of a highway.

Then compare that to Bangladesh.

I can assure you 80% of Bangladeshis live within 10 miles of a highway.

I can also assure you the number for India will be significantly lower.

I would rather take logic and MATHS over your assurances.

I have tried to explain it in simple math's but its obvious that's going over your head.

 

[BananaRepublic]

No idea why we have an Indian poster still thinking that there is any "race" between BD and India in infrastructure.

India is like 20 times larger and so of ocurse its infrastructure cannot have the same high quality and dense almost universal coverage.

Another rote learning south Asian with a wobbly head lol

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@KimExit

Roads per capita is meaningless. A densely populated country/city will have a lower road length per capita but the access of the citizenry will be much better.

@BananaRepublic

This makes Bangladesh a much better place than India for the underclass.

In theory, yes. But if we go by the multidimensional poverty index compiled by UNDP it is not actually true.

I am copying/pasting something I had originally posted on Brofessor sb's website about a couple of years back.

Multidimensional Poverty: India is Home to 75% of World's Population Deprived of Basic Living Standards

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To reiterate some of the basic numbers:

https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/do...eportenpdf.pdf

https://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/f..._and_2_en.xlsx

For India the score is 0.069 (16% headcount in poverty, 42% extent of deprivation among the multidimensional poor) ahead of NEP 0.074 (17.5%, 42%), BD 0.104 (24.6%, 42%), PAK 0.198 (38.3%, 52%). SL still remains tops in South Asia with a score of 0.011.

Some of the key deprivation numbers on various indices for IND, PAK and BD in that order.

Nutrition- 11.8,27.0, 8.7- BD is the clear outperformer
Child mortality- 1.5,5.9, 1.3- BD again
Schooling- 7.7, 24.8, 6.5- India leads has done so historically, hopefully ModiGee will not run it down
Cooking fuel- 13.9, 31.2, 22.8- IND has substantially improved courtesy ModiGee and Ujjwala
Drinking water- 2.7, 7.9, 1.4- All three have done quite well
Bijlee- 2.1, 7.1, 4.6- All three doing OK, again ModiGee with Ujala scheme leading the way
Housing- 13.6, 30.6, 22.8- IND outperformer thanks to ModiGee PM Awas Yojna
Assets- 5.6, 12.2, 15.9- Modi again seals it with Jan Dhan Yojana plus overall higher GDP and savings rate
Sanitation- 11.3, 21.7, 15.3 From being a global embarassment to best among three thanks to Swachh Bharat Mission!

Regards

 

[UKBengali]

Another rote learning south Asian with a wobbly head lol

I don't think it is just that as some people find it very difficult to accept that BD is No. 1 in anything.

No point trying to reason with them as they are not here to accept valid arguments.

 

[SoulSpokesman]

It is indubitable that BD has done very well in nutrition and child mortality.

Regards

 

[KimExit]

@KimExit

Roads per capita is meaningless. A densely populated country/city will have a lower road length per capita but the access of the citizenry will be much better.

Which is why I combined road density with road per capita.

A densely populated country with less roads will still limit the access of its citizens to roads.

 

[BananaRepublic]

I would rather take logic and MATHS over your assurances.

I have tried to explain it in simple math's but its obvious that's going over your head.

I hope your post stays here forever - it is a perfect demonstration of rote learning!

I am going to use it as an example when I am explaining the difference between rote learning and critical thinking.

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@KimExit

But that is the point, BD doesnt have a poor road density.

Regards