Thaindian News, 10 Oct 2008, IANS
Singapore, Oct 10 (IANS) Lee Kuan Yew, the man behind the Singapore success story, Friday outlined his vision of the route that India should take to fast track its evolution as a developed global power. In an extensive hour-long interaction with participants at the mini Pravasi Bharatiya Divas being held in Singapore, Minister Mentor Lee called for a dramatic shift of the Indian multitudes living in the villages to the cities and towns.
This was the formula that Singapore had used when he transformed this city state from a mosquito-infested swamp to the shining financial metropolis it had become, he said. And this was the route that countries across the globe, whether in Europe or America, South Korea, Japan or Taiwan, had taken in their struggle to become developed first world nations.
He held up the example of China, which he said, every year moves more than 10 million people from the countryside to the cities, and in doing so was able to provide them with education, healthcare, and quality housing.
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