Nagpur

That's the trip I keep thinking about, where it looks easy until you actually try it, and suddenly close means two modes, one bad sidewalk, and a wait that eats the whole afternoon.

And that's the gap we're starting with in Nagpur, where central neighborhoods can reach essential services by transit while the edges are still left out.

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One caveat, city and institution metadata are both zero, so the geography is broad, not granular.

Alright, let's get into the papers with measuring service gaps and spatial inequalities in public transit access to essential urban services.

Evidence from Nagpur, India, by N. Kapai and Pankaj Bahadur in Transportation Research Record, 2026.

The plane finding is sharp.

Really, the finance minister opening up access to space, FDI and space as well, and then getting to a point where today InSpace itself is funding startups about one cr for different projects that's 100k which could be transformational in early stages of any company and plus having that support from the government allows you to then go and talk to investors that hey by the way the department of space has validated us as a company that they also want to invest in So I think there's more than a policy change the way things are being executed has also been a really good change.

Indian VCs are typically slow to action compared to what happens in the US but if things that have happened in the US are any sign to go by sovereign investment in space capabilities is only going to increase and today there are I mean I think 400 plus space companies that are existing in multiple verticals across India, not just in, you know, typical centers like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, but also Ahmedabad, Delhi, places like Nagpur also for that matter.

So it's very interesting to see that growth of the number of companies.

And from the government side, I think it's just availability of funding was the only thing that people expected from them.

I mean, honestly, I think That's where I think Mahindra missed it.

If you see Mahindra, their expansion strategy or their, you know, capacity expansion strategy, a full new greenfield plant near Nagpur, you know, I don't know what, 7,000-8,000 crores at least.

And it'll take three years up.

Data Motors, 1,000 crores, got a top-class plant in Gujarat with an existing, you know, supplied ecosystem over there.

You know, we always get games in Ahmedabad, in Gujarat, right? So keep a neutral game in Surat.

If you are in Amharashtra, Nagpur or maybe even Pune.

Pune should get non-India games or something if Mumbai is getting the India

game.

Correct.

Vidarbh gets a team.

So, there will be games in Nagpur.

And the sixth team can be either Odisha or Kerala.