What Nehru did and followed up by Indra for India back in the 60's with the indigenization of the manufacturing, engineering and local construction/ contracting mobs was a masterstroke. Now yous got all the big engineering/ construction companies with local offices in India with local talent.
And at the end of the day bhai, why pay me 3/4 lakh dollar per year, when they can have 5 engineers in my place with different disciplines and 3 draftees thrown in as a bonus.
We all got lucky because in that period from 2002 all the way till 2016, China needed immense resources and Australia is like the minerals & metals capital of the world. Chinese demand for Alumina, Iron Ore, Zinc, Copper, Coal, Gold, Silver was insatiable. So many Aussie projects came up that it made multi millionaires out of a lot of Aussie engineers. I saved up man and retired early.
Indian offices of major engineering contractors like bechtel, Hatch. Worley Parsons, Fluor Daniel etc played a key role as subby's on many of these multi billion dollar projects of bhp billiton, Rio Tinto, Glencore/ Xstrata and you name it bhai.......
Nehru and Indra were busy courting these big names to open their offices in India throughout the 60's/ 70's/ 80's and 90's.......and in our country we were watching Rambo and Top Gun and inviting jihadi's from the GCC to give us money and eff-sola.......lol
Nateeja dekh lo aaj aap.
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