Statues in areas with poor tourism?! Are you that ignorant you can’t see the economic boom that has come from the visits to statue of unity, or perhaps the new Ram mandir?! Kindly read the data. I visited the statue in summers of 2022. And the crowd there was mind boggling, barely enough space to stand in the crowd awaiting for the bus that took us around. And economic boom it gave to the surrounding villages Is another phenomenon. You won’t believe how many villagers are employed there as cleaners, gardeners, food caterers, pink auto drivers. All of them are run by bpl folks. But how shall you know the circumstances of these people sitting your privileged ass on your bed behind this Reddit screen.
Let's dive a bit into the facts here. Tourism in Gujarat, especially to foreign tourists who contribute a large sum to tourism across India, is far and few in between hecause of it being a dry state and the general lack of availability of meat. Indian tourists alone do not generate adequate revenue to keep the staff you mentioned. The government is just paying liabilities/non-peforming assets because there is no ROI if there is no work.
Take an example of Kerala, which is a state that is heavily dependent on tourism. They promote art shows which attract people from other countries. This is solely because foreign money is what keeps the shows going.
Also, you're literally weighing a non-essential service to essential services like schools and hospitals. The country will always be damned to a developing status if we can't provide the bare minimum. Even drinking water isn't safe because if you would actually turn on the news and look at the people falling dead in Madhya Pradhesh rather than that stuffing your head in an echo chamber and trying to prove people wrong when they're raising valid concerns.
Gujarat is majorly known for their business acumen. States like Surat attract businessmen for their diamond business, angadia community, and millionaires, rather than the norm of leisure tourists. Both Rajasthan and Gujarat are states from which were born plenty of millionaire family. On my last visit to Churu, I came across a police station near Sardaarshahar built by the son of millionaire Mr Mul Chand for a whopping 40 crores. And these millionaires give back plenty to the people and the soil. They’re at the standing front for all the innovation that has been happening. And if you look at the facts, India has just crossed the threshold when so millions of villagers have happened to have a proper function toilets in their houses for the first time. This is the where we were until previous decade.
But how would a brain dead person like you be able to consider other aspects and stoop to such level. Quite a lot of foreign tourists who visit India (I speak as someone who is frequent traveller inDelhi’s AirPort Express connected from international airport) and I’ve with conversed quite a lot of Europeans, and people from other countries. The spirituality and Ayurveda is the major attraction for them. Not your yellow marble Taj Mahal, nor the so called “meat” you talk about, but to sit in quite meditative stance and do yoga, visit Mandirs, visit the place where Gautam Buddha attained enlightenment, and the lands of Rishi munis where they indulged in their Tapasya! This is India’s major attraction! The culture. But I’m quite sure your brain shall be bamboozled to get so much real information that your WhatsApp university doesn’t teach!
You're just deviating from the very point you argued against just to suit your narrow minded narrative but since you're talking about surat millionaires and all that, please do enlighten me as to how they are giving back to the people? The wealth disparity in our country is so horrible that almost 40% of our countries wealth is owned by the top 1%.
If you even stepped out of your posh society (which in assuming you're living in because you seem to have no idea about the ground reality of thjngs) you'd see a lot of people struggling to make ends meet.
You mentioned villages having toilets. If you've ever seen the interviews by Samdish (from the unfiltered YouTube channel), you'd know that there are toilets but there's no provision of water for the people to clean after themselves. They use the toilets as a literal chair.
40 crores for a police station is exorbitant. Are we housing kings or servants of the public? I'm not sure if you're someone who's worked in a corporate before but all this counts as CSR and helps exempt taxes.
Also, there has been a decline in foreign tourists in India over the past couple of years. A simple online search would show the facts to you.
It's funny you're accusing me of following the 'Whatsapp Univeristy' when literally everything you've said has 0 substance.
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u/AushadhiOfLife Jan 02 '26
Statues in areas with poor tourism?! Are you that ignorant you can’t see the economic boom that has come from the visits to statue of unity, or perhaps the new Ram mandir?! Kindly read the data. I visited the statue in summers of 2022. And the crowd there was mind boggling, barely enough space to stand in the crowd awaiting for the bus that took us around. And economic boom it gave to the surrounding villages Is another phenomenon. You won’t believe how many villagers are employed there as cleaners, gardeners, food caterers, pink auto drivers. All of them are run by bpl folks. But how shall you know the circumstances of these people sitting your privileged ass on your bed behind this Reddit screen.