Monday, September 18, 2006

Indian transport is undergoing a quite & dramatic transformation

What is common between Lalu Prasad Yadav, Ratan Tata and C. Y. Gopinath? The first one is a hard-core politician busy re-inventing himself as a transformational CEO. The second is busy changing the venerated Tata group into a multinational conglomerate. And the third is a first generation entrepreneur who has created a market that did not exist before. On the face of it, there is not much that is similar between the three. And yet, there is a common thread that links the three together. They are symbols of the relatively quiet and unheralded manner in which the transportation sector in India is undergoing a revolution. While analysts and the media have been singing hosannas to well hyped sectors like information technology (IT) and telecom, people like Yadav, Tata and Gopinath are ensuring that efficient, cost effective and fast transportation is quietly making India Inc. much more competitive than it was even a few years ago.

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