‘Singapore is ready to help Maharashtra develop its infrastructure in major cities like Mumbai and Pune, an official said Friday.
This was indicated by visiting Singapore Deputy Prime Minister T. Shanmugaratnam in talks with Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan here.
“Singapore is a very small country compared to India. We focussed on providing the best urban infrastructure and developing cities to progress,” Shanmugaratnam said.’…. Dajiworld.com, 25 May 2013.
I think this is a good thing as Singapore has all the experienced and expertise in infrastructure development, and also the talents to do the job.
What is likely to happen is that Singapore will manage the projects and send an army of new citizens and PRs who were ex Indians, to India complete the job. These super talents will have the advantage of former home ground knowledge, know the language and culture, and given the chance to help redevelop India after having helped to develop what Singapore is today. They came to Singapore as foreign talents and now can return as foreign talents from Singapore.
India would benefit from these talented Indians, or new Singaporeans to build more modern cities that it has failed to do so far. Some of you may be puzzled who is helping who, talents from India helping India or talents from Singapore helping India.
Chua Chin Leng aka redbean
* The writer blogs at http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com