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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Tex in India
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Tex in India
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Tex in India
Ajit Ranade
TUG 2002, Thiruvananthapuram
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September 2002
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September 2002
Weaknesses
fiscal deficit high, debt gdp ratio high fiscal situation of states worse inadequate infrastructure, huge funding need unsatisfactory investment climate rising gap between rich and poor states dependence on oil imports, monsoons slowing of reforms, coalition compulsions social indicators below world average
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India World
2000 2001
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Agriculture 30.9
53.3
21.9
2000-01
Services 43.7
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Industry 25.4
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Exports
Domestic
FY02 (E)
FY95
FY96
FY97
FY98
FY99
FY00
FY01
IT Enabled Services
Recently emerged as a major driver of software industry
Covers services like medical transcription, customer interaction service, data digitization, back office operations In FY02, showed 70% growth (Rs. 70 bn) Employs over 1,00,000 people Will account for 40% of all venture capital investment by end of 2002
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13-15
8-11
21-24 28-30
0 10 20 30 40
IT Services Exports
TeX in India
TeX Users Groups of India is 5 years old Possibly the biggest TUG (?) All 13 Indic scripts can be typeset in TeX (but only 10 of 5000 fonts free) an estimated 8000 people work diectly on TeX for their livelihood Research and font development work almost totally done outside India in the past only one widely used TeX package done in India (pdfscreen)
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Indian Readership
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Readership Surveys
Sources NRS and IRS growth more than 10%, high in the Hindi belt 180 m readers, Kerala 70%, Bihar 15% average exposure only 16 minutes to media Dainik Bhasker, Jagran now largest dailies readership of dailies growth faster than literacy growth during 1999-2002 48% readership in 6 lakh villages
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