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Manufacturing India-II

Posted on October 19, 2007 by indra

Indian manufacturing sector is getting pretty attractive. Smaller enterprises are scaling up. Many MNCs are setting up shops for varied products. New technologies are entering. Indian manufacturers with all odds such as rising rupee are competing. Augmenting manufacturing growth: India … Continue reading →

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Booming and Bubbling India- XXII

Posted on October 15, 2007 by indra

India’s place in the global economy has been best covered in an article in the latest Mc Kinsey Quarterly: “Real GDP growth averaged 8.6 percent over the past four years, and the country’s economic planners expect it to grow by … Continue reading →

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Business Week And Economist on India

Posted on October 13, 2007 by indra

Business Week has some very informative reports. How India Clusters Growth: A slew of new manufacturing hubs, or “clusters,” developing across India, from Chennai in the south to the hosiery and knitwear capital of Ludhiana in the north take advantage … Continue reading →

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Manufacturing India-I

Posted on October 10, 2007 by indra

India can compete with China only with a booming and competitive manufacturing sector. India has the talent and skill. A change of mindset among the techies will be necessary to appreciate its need. India can switch over to hardware sector … Continue reading →

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Booming and Bubbling India- XXI

Posted on October 8, 2007 by indra

Sensitive Index (Sensex) is flirting with a new record high of 18000. If it had closed at that level, it would have been the fastest 2000-point rise in the recent history of any stockmarket. In the past few weeks, the … Continue reading →

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Chinese Toys- Lessons from Mattel Story

Posted on September 28, 2007 by indra

Many years ago, I had read a story in Readers Digest about the quality of a Japanese doll that was getting inspected. The inspector rejected it as the doll had some sharp feature that could hurt the child using it. … Continue reading →

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Tata’s Rs 1 lakh Car: Evolution and Impact

Posted on September 20, 2007 by indra

It was a summer of 1959. Five mechanical engineering students from IIT, Kharagpur were on vocational training in TELCO, Jamshedpur. TELCO was its abbreviated name and that is today Tata Motors. I was one of the five. Even at that … Continue reading →

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Booming and Bubbling India- XVIII

Posted on September 17, 2007 by indra

The politicians have been busy obstructing Indo-US Nuclear Deal and Sethusamudram Canal Project. Mayawati and Uma Bharati are creating problems for Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Fresh. However, India’s economy grows faster than ever; and its newly confident companies are showing their … Continue reading →

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Defence Can Boost Manufacturing Sector

Posted on September 13, 2007 by indra

India can get rid of its poverty only if it becomes a major manufacturing power. It will have to manufacture everything that the domestic as well as global consumers demand today and will demand tomorrow. If India is not in … Continue reading →

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Booming and Bubbling India- XVII

Posted on September 10, 2007 by indra

I have gone through a wonderful story in Fortune, ‘On the Road: Why India can win on some points against China’: M.V. Kotwal, a director of Larsen & Toubro (L&T), India’s largest and most international heavy engineering group, said that … Continue reading →

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