Chapter 182: Concentrate on the big things

But even if it is a big construction plan with a sheep’s head, it still needs everyone’s labor, and you can’t make a plan with many loopholes, or won’t it be seen by the lower and middle class Indian civil servants?

So this one plan must be grandiose and believable and sincere, not just open a plan to spend money. Alan Wilson’s proposition has been agreed upon by the top civil servants of British India.

So near the end of the Christmas party, the British civil servants are not exactly in the middle of cha meal spent, entertainment is not forgetting to work, and do their best to add to the development of India.

Many senior civil servants are old-timers, and Alan Wilson, though assistant to the commissioner, did not pick on these seniors. The road building program in Bengal, for example, is very much a mature big picture idea.

If you don’t take into account the fact that the Ganges delta is always erupting in floods, resulting in roads and bridges that don’t last very long.

And once India is partitioned, Greater Bengal will be split into two countries, bridges will all go to Pakistan, roads built will surely be abandoned, and all the other reasons, it is a flawless plan.

Storm surges in the Ganges Delta are mostly caused by hurricanes, which are formed by intensely developing low-pressure centers. Synchronized with the “summer winds”, the tropical cyclone season runs from mid-May to mid-September each year. During this period, there are many convective rains and typhoon rains, which are often characterized by lightning and thunder, and torrential rains.

Ganges Delta terrain is low and flat average elevation of only ten meters, near the Bay of Bengal area elevation is less than ten meters, the river network is densely packed, the coastline is funnel-shaped, the storm surge is not easy to disperse and gathered near the mouth of the Ganges River, the formation of a strong tidal wave, the sky surging to the Ganges Delta Plain, it is easy to cause extensive flooding.

Ganges Delta hurricane rain is a regular thing, the geographic factors, but also have the Himalayas a share of the credit. The entire Ganges River Basin in the rainy season precipitation is very outrageous, the Ganges River Delta is one of the high incidence areas, once the floods, the death of a 100,000 or 200,000 people, is not how sensational things.

But even so, the impact plain of the Ganges Delta, is still the treasure of the Ganges, after the partition of India and Pakistan, the mouth of the Ganges River fell into the hands of other countries, seriously affecting the development of the Ganges River Basin.

It is equivalent to the Yangtze River Basin are under the control, Hui Jing to the magic capital of the great river mouth but lost, this is still the development of the fart.

Different provinces have different advantages, Bengal Dajian to roads and bridges, Delhi and Mumbai can also have their own projects, since it is the first two major cities, the capital city and import and export trade center, the development of real estate should not be too much, right?

Alan Wilson and British India in front of senior civil servants, immediately appeared a map of the distribution of natural resources.

From the map in front of them, the tightly knit gentlemen, probably already have a number in mind. India’s current industrial areas and resource allocation, in fact, also in the northeast near the mouth of the Ganges, with Calcutta as the center of the industrial zone, is currently the most powerful industrial zone in British India.

So this time the big building is mainly to strengthen the Calcutta industrial zone, as for what Delhi Mumbai just build houses on the line, once the partition of India and Pakistan appeared, Calcutta industrial zone will collapse.

No wonder in the India-Pakistan partition just proposed when Nehru fiercely opposed, the original is the place where the Bengalis live, is the essence of the whole of British India.

Calcutta as the center of the industrial zone, is the earliest formation of British India’s industrial zone, hemp textile and machinery are the two major industrial sectors in this area, the Ganges Delta is India’s jute origin, Calcutta is India’s jute textile industry center, but also the center of the machinery manufacturing industry. Kolkata is the largest city in the Ganges Delta, and for a long time the largest city in South Asia.

Yet all this would say goodbye with the partition of India and Pakistan, destined to decline for political reasons.

“Ah the northeast! The same direction! What a place.” Alan Wilson reached out and rubbed his chin, all of a sudden thought of a certain old industrial area with such similar basic conditions, directly set the core of the big building, opened his mouth and said to his colleagues around him, “Gentlemen, this is a time of reconciliation, Calcutta is filled with diversified charms, and it deserves to be the most prosperous place in British India, doesn’t it? It’s considered a heavy industrial area compared to other places, and heavy industry requires a lot of capital investment, a very, very large amount of money.”

Very, very large inputs, this sentence attracted the attention of all the administrators, but if one concentrated on Calcutta as the center of the big construction, wouldn’t the other provinces not get their share? How would that work?

In the face of such dissent, Allenwell was signaling for a moment’s peace and spoke, “Gentlemen, now is the time for unity. If the Indians know we are now like this, will laugh at us. Let us not confine ourselves to the gains and losses of one city and one place, for it is probable that the whole of British India will have no room for the exercise of our talents.”

“The good thing about concentrating on one place is that when all eyes are fixed on one place, everyone makes his contribution and of course all have their share.”

“Gentlemen, this is not the usual time, we are now in the same boat.” Gerrit, the Administrator of Bengal, also spoke up, “Pool all the funds of British India, every movement of funds is under the eyes of all of you, and you can send men to Calcutta to keep a close watch on the movements of the funds.”

“Of course we will have to plan the big building, for example, we will have to strictly establish the supporting factories in the residential areas of the Hindus and the Pacifists respectively, and to use a common analogy, we will have to give a lock to the Hindus, but the key will be in the hands of the Pacifists, and the reverse will be true as well.”

Alan Wilson explained blandly that the advantage of this was that once the partition of India and Pakistan had begun, the whole of the industrial area of Calcutta would collapse as a whole, if not all at once, then never again.

The London side of the idea of British India is still in hesitation, but the presence of the British Indian civil servants, every one knows, Ali Jinnah more than once publicly announced that never and Hindus stay in the middle of a country.

This resolute attitude, even after the assassination did not change, but became more and more determined.

Once the distribution of the two religions came to mind, the crowd could see the difference when looking at the industrial area of Calcutta.

“We are also trying to bridge the gap between the two major religions, and as Alan said, this is a time of reconciliation.” Bengal Administrator Gerrit nodded his head knowingly, then exclaimed, “This is not just about Calcutta or Bengal, the glory belongs to the whole of British India, including any kind of religion.”

“Not bad, yes!” The administrators of the provinces have given positive responses, so this time the focus area of the big construction, has been set, the rest is what kind of support the provinces can give, this Alan Wilson is not a professional, but also these administrators to introduce.

Look at colleagues who speak freely, Alan Wilson heart quite proud, counterpart help so appeared in British India, which should be considered a feat of their own.

Both sides should be in line with the “complementary advantages, mutual benefit, long-term cooperation, common development” principle, in the poverty alleviation assistance, economic and technical cooperation and exchange of talents and other aspects of multi-level, all-round collaboration.

However, the difference is that the Calcutta Industrial Estate itself is the most important industrial estate in British India.

So now the counterpart help, is backward areas to help rich areas more affluent, the main goal of the big building program is to drain all the funds and talents of other provinces, focusing on the construction of the Calcutta Industrial Zone.

Looking forward to this place to become the most competitive place in British India, this is all for the future of British India will be better well.

However, in case the future if there is a little bit of everyone do not want to see the twists and turns, such as the partition of India and Pakistan, naturally all the funds and construction will be in vain.

But there is absolutely no responsibility of the gentlemen present here, it is well known that this time the big building program is well-intentioned, and even has the intention of bridging the Hindu and pacifist mixed places, to promote the unity of the intention.

If in future the two groups are to be separated and live alone, resulting in the disintegration of the entire industrial area of Calcutta, the responsibility naturally cannot fall on the shoulders of the gentlemen present, and the blame should be placed on the selfishness of the Congress and the PML-N.

Already have a general direction of the framework, Alan Wilson soon put the preliminary program, sent to Sir Barron.

Sir Barron once endorsed will start reporting on British India, taking the draft of the big building program, Sir Barron said a few questions, “This draft is very detailed, but London on this time the big building program, if the proposed Calcutta industrial zone will not become a competitor how to do?”

“Sir Barron, this is a long-term development plan, I and my colleagues believe that now is the time to realize the potential of British India, the power of many people, I believe that mobilized motivation, ten years of development plans, it is entirely possible to go on at the same time within a year.” Alan Wilson explained unhurriedly, “We have all worked in British India for many years, we have a deep affection for this piece of land, and we desperately want to see a sky-rocketing change here.”

“Good, I’ll send this draft to Sir Edward right away, don’t go yet, first explain some key points here that the natives may not be able to think about.” Sir Barron nodded his head and opened his mouth to call out to Alan Wilson who was ready to leave.

“Oh, understand!” Alan Wilson very obediently stayed behind, the annotated document was definitely sent to the Cabinet Secretary.

The draft of the Great Construction traveled with the unseen radio waves, halfway across the broken ball, to the continent, and was soon on Edward Bridges’ desk.