Originally Posted by
parkfell
Perhaps their investment in Space should be diverted into aviation?
Sorry, this reads like ignorance and ugly prejudice.
India's airports are crap like most of the rest of its infrastructure, true.
Factually, most of India's wasted resources which could help remedy the infrastructure are spent on government mismanagement of funds, not on space, which has an allocation of 1.8 bil. Out of a 460 bil total budget some 60 bil is spent on defence, 90 bil on debt servicing, 40 bil on various subsidies.
These other areas are more legitimate targets for pointing out where reductions could be made (if one ignores the basic issue that a poor legal and regulatory framework means that diverting more funds into a new area will not necessarily mean proportionately better results).
One might as well say, the US should shut down NASA and divert the money to stockpiling ventilators, PPE, better roads and bridges, water systems in Flint, etc.. But that would be stupid and counterproductive, because NASA has disproportionate value to the US technological edge and is not such a large part of overall spending.
The same is actually true of India, if one is actually interested in looking at the facts rather than in spewing frankly quite ugly and disgusting prejudice.