India, being the fourth largest economy is the world, with a population of 1.2 billion has shown some great growth and development in the recent years. Over the 67 years of independence, India has made a milestone agricultural revolution that has converted the nation from long-lasting reliance on agricultural imports to now the global agricultural powerhouse and exporter of the same. Other than agricultural developments, India has seen drastic developments in life expectancy, that has more than doubled, literacy rates that have increased fourfold and health conditions have upgraded for the better reducing the poverty and therefore helping in the emergence of a large middle class population. India is also well known for some of it globally known companies in pharmaceuticals, steel, information and space technologies.
India has the potential to have the largest, youngest workforce in the world. A major credit of this also goes to the large scale urbanization taking place in the nation. About 10 million people are a part of this, making it the largest rural-urban migration of the centur...
In terms of the economic environment, although India was characterized by low per capita gross domestic and Indian drug prices were among the lowest in the world, under the leadership of Dr. Monahan Singh, the country began the process of liberalization. This economic reform together with the globalization trend was moving the economy away from import substitution to an export-driven economy. Improvements on the infrastructure, distribution, logistics were aimed at attracting foreign direct investments which was encouraged by increasing the maximum limit of foreign ownership to 51% in the industry. At the same time, increased pressure from shareholders has caused a consolidation of the industry: more mergers and acquisitions will take place over the coming years.
Though the world economy as a whole has grown in recent years, a factor that is not taken into account is that the number “of the poor in the world has increased by 100 million” (Roy 3). In other words, the gap between rich and poor is widening. For India, this has startling implications. Though it is a nation that is developing in many ways, it also is a nation blessed with over one billion citizens, a population tally that continues to grow at a rapid rate. This population increase will greatly tax resources, which can create a setback in the development process. The tragedy, of course, is that the world is full of resources and wealth. In fact, Roy quotes a statistic showing that corporations, and not even just countries, represent 51 of the 100 largest economies in the world (Roy 3). For a country struggling to develop, such information is disheartening. However, there is also a more nefarious consequence of the growing disparity between rich and poor, and power and money being concentrated in the hands of multinational corporations: war is propagated in the name of resource acquisition, and corruption can reign as multinationals seek confederates in developing countries that will help companies drive through their plans, resulting in not only environmental destruction but also the subversion of democracy (Roy 3).
This is necessary as the vast majority of individuals migrating from rural to urban centers has been steadily increasing with the level of economic growth seen within the past twenty years as mentioned earlier. Unfortunately, this situation has further shown the structural issues and inequalities of cities, as most migrants end up having a poor quality of life living in informal settlements as highlight substantially by Boo. As a means of tackling this, however, the Indian government has turned its focus on investing rural regions, developing the agricultural sector. Specifically, Boo mentions that “the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, had come down from Delhi to express his concern for the farmers’ hardships, and the central government’s determination to relieve it” (p. 138). While this is definitely important funds are not being divided justly. For starters, between rural and urban areas almost all investments are being targeting towards rural regions, which is only addressing issues of inequality in one section of the country. Furthermore, across rural areas inequalities of investment are quite often overlooked. Although, “one of the governments hopes was to stop villagers from abandoning their farms and further inundating cities like Mumbai, but Asha’s relatives knew nothing of these celebrated relief programs” (p. 138). Therefore, even though
Another reason for urban change in Dharavi is the rapid population growth. India’s population growth has been taking place at a very fast rate. India contains nearly one fifth of the worlds entire population. This increase in population has caused many problems for the people in Dharavi such as unemployment, pressure on infrastructure, scarcity of resources as well as inequitable income
India is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the world's largest/ populated democracy in the world. It is among the strongest ‘new nations’ of the world and its sustained democratic freedoms are the most unique in the world. But due to the development of the human mind in the modern 21st generation, lots of questions are being asked about the country. A few of them are to understand the development of the country, but the other questions are basically misconceptions or stereotypes about India.
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India, the second highest populated country in the world after China, with 1.27 billion people currently recorded to be living there and equates for 17.31% (India Online Pages 2014) of the world's population, but is still considered a developing country due to it’s poverty and illiteracy rates. As these nations continue to grow at rates that are too fast for resources to remain sustainable, the government’s in these areas wi...
...an HDI of 0.36. These discrepancies in levels of development have led to an exodus of people, from less developed areas to the areas that have been benefitted by development. This situation seems to depict that predicted by the Dependency theory in which the developed countries progressed due to the exploitation of peripheral nations; the same seems to be happening in India. The states that are wealthier are exploiting the poorer states. It would be difficult to imagine India having the economic status that it now has, if it was not for the terrible working conditions and wages at which the Indians are willing to work and the massive work force available in the country. Now that India has seen economic growth the government should start taking care of its citizens by implementing policies that protect the labor rights of the workforce.
In recent decades, urbanisation has been accelerating in the Global South, where is also the scale that the main population growth of the world is predicted to take place within (Patrick and Peter, 2010). Indeed, urbanisation has raised the average living standard and given a better prospect of the future development, and it has brought much benefit and convenience to the residence in many aspects as well. However, urban inequalities due to the unequal distribution of resources and facilities are becoming more obvious in the process of urbanisation in the Global South, and people from different categories are facing assorted situations in employment, social welfares and gaining access to advanced facilities. Among all the issues involving inequalities,
The market for IT industry was huge and expanding at a fast pace. However the market leaders were Accenture and IBM which had a negligent market share and rest was captured by small enterprises. Indian companies also ventured in the industry and due to their competition, IT multinational giants had to increase their base in India. Due to high opportunities, attrition rate was also high in this industry. As a result Indian companies like Wipro, Infosys increased their base level salaries. During this phase, Indian economy was transforming towards an era of information and knowledge. This can be seen from the fact that contribution of services towards the economy’s GDP was higher than 18% in 2001 as against in 1980. No other industry had done better standing against global competition. The annual exports had always been over 50% over a decade. U.S.A. share represents highest with 61% and about a third of Fortune 500 companies outsource their software work to India. To foster development, Indian government has taken a number of steps like liberalization of policies and providing necessary capital and infrastructure to foster growth. Thus Indian environment has been conducive for growth. (Ref: Indian Embassy.org) Competitor analysis- The market for IT industry was fairly competitive with IBM and Accenture as global leaders and rest of the market was pretty diffused. IBM and Accenture had strong brand and a global presence with a large customer base. They also offered panoply of services viz. technology implementation, business consulting, offshore services, customer relationship management etc. Both offered breadth and depth of services. IT market in India offered technical and business consulting with Tata Consultancy Services which was the market leader in IT exports and Wipro Technologies and Infosys being other major market players. TCS offered consultancy services, IT services, asset based solution etc. Wipro was third largest IT provider with service offerings in IT consulting, software solutions, BPO etc. Both had a strong global presence. Intensity of Rivalry: Rivalry amongst competitors was pretty intense as can be seen the Indian competition caused IBM to increase their presence in India. However leaders like IBM and Accenture had a wide range of service offerings so competition was only amongst few sectors. Rivalry was to hire the top talent as human capital is the most important thing in the IT sector. This is the reason that attrition rate lead to a rise in pay packages.
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Indian population has a mixture of culture, variety of languages and difference in resources. The difference in occupational structure, literacy level, health status and other socio-economic factors among the states leads to the
In any case, Indians made critical advances in structural planning (Taj Mahal), arithmetic (the innovation of zero) and prescription (Ayurveda). Today, India is an exceptionally assorted nation, with more than 1.2 billion individuals, as per the CIA World Factbook, making it the second most crowded country after China. Diverse areas have their own particular societies. Dialect, religion, nourishment and human expressions are only a portion of the different parts of Indian society. Here is a brief diagram of the way of life of India. (Zimmermann, 2015).
There are many daily wage workers in Birbhum district, West Bengal, who have migrated with their children, and even some of them have been staying there from more than two-three generations. Many children of these labourers are deprived of their basic education. Sometimes even if they want to continue their education in a newly inhabited place but it becomes very difficult for them due to various reasons. (Ekka & Roy, 2013)
Migration remains to attract much attention from numerous people include rising concern. Rural to urban migration especially among youth is still an ongoing issue that has become the global concern. The need to address the concerns of rural to urban migration has been well publicised by many scholars. The research or study of migration is an essential issue in diverse fields not only in order to better understand the reasons for their migration but also to reflect its influence on the livelihood aspects of individuals including the impacts either positive or negative effects of their migration as wells.