Some International Organisations have taken on themselves to make a mockery out of themselves. These colonial ‘clique’ institutions act as a puppet to paddle distorted analysis to paint such a lala-land situation which boomerangs badly on them. They fudge numbers to please their masters and besmirch the reputation of being an International Organisations. Such seems to be the case with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Intellectual Dishonesty
The IMF has released its working paper to rank countries in terms of speed of road transport. After their analysis they came to the conclusion that Pakistan, a nation which runs on foreign alms is better than the World’s Fifth largest economy, India. The agency after comparing 162 countries ranked India at a dismal position of 127th. Interestingly, it placed Pakistan at 44th position in the World. To no surprise the Developed nations topped the chart.
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The devil lies in the details. As numbers can be deceiving, it can paint a contrasting picture. Playing with numbers in a skewed faction you can arrive at a prejudiced result. Therefore the methodology has to be taken into consideration before judging such bizarre outcomes.
The same seems to have happened in this case. As the agency itself highlights that it resorted to using ‘simple’ Google Maps rather than relying on satellites or surveys to come to these conclusions. There are many more flaws in it. After analysis Hindustan Times peeled all the layers of this Intellectual Dishonesty by the Institution.
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The Institution has used selective samples which are not representative of the actual condition of road traffic. The findings are limited to three to six biggest cities by population per country. Interestingly, large countries have many large cities so it gives more numbers to ‘play with’ to give such crappy rankings.
Another methodological constraint is that only those cities are taken that are farther than the largest city by at least 80 km. For example, the Indian cities selected are Mumbai, Ahmedabad (531 km from Mumbai), Bangalore (984 km from Mumbai), and Delhi (1,422 km from Mumbai).
Comparing apples with oranges
With a mean speed of 58 km/h, India is ranked 127th out of 162 countries. The US (107 km/h) is the fastest country in the world and Bhutan (38 km/h) the slowest. Surprisingly Pakistan with a mean speed of 86 km/h, the 44th fastest in the world. (Travel time taken from Karachi to Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Lahore, and Rawalpindi. But is it really that the case? Does ‘Economically deprived’ Pakistan have better Road Infrastructure than India and other major economies?
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By the way, India has been scripting incessant World Records in building Road Infrastructure. According to the National Highway Authority of Pakistan, it has a total length of 12,131 kms. This counts to 4.6% of the total national roads network i.e 263,775 kms. Just for the sake of comparison, India with its average of 37 Km/day will take less than a year to build an entire network of National Highway of Pakistan.
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Additionally, as per Pakistan’s CEIC, it has a registered 6.3 Million units of vehicles. While India has 295 Million vehicles thronging the streets to boost a strong Indian economy.
Time for Introspection
While there are many flaws in the methodology of the IMF, we Indians as always should see learning curbs with this. India has been over cautious to avoid high occurrence of Road Accidents to save precious lives of our citizens especially the youth. As India suffers the most number of tragic road accidents in the world. This has been emphasised by the Union Minister Nitin Gadkari. He has been consistently planning and speaking on this matter to improve road safety in India. Tough a lot has been done already like stricting the issuance of Driving licence or Motor Vehicle Act or barriers on road.
Playing with numbers can be fun but still officials sitting at a reputable job should resist their urge for the same.
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