EXPLORING ASIA AND THE

REST OF THE WORLD

INDIA THE GIANT BEGINS TO STIR
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 Regions of India
The Northern Mountains
The mountains occupy a narrow strip
along the north.

The Ganges Plain

Between the two-the mountains and the
plateau –is the greatest Ganges flood plain
with its thick layers of silt.

The Deccan Plateau

The Deccan plateau fills a triangular
peninsula in the south with highlands-the
Western and Eastern Ghats-along the
coast, before the land drops to plains the
Indian Ocean.
 Ideal conditions for arable farming

• Wide expenses of flatland

• Fertile, easy to work soil
• Summer monsoon rains
• Additional water supplies from the river Ganges

Two or three crops a year

can be grown- rice
in summer,
and wheat and
vegetables in winter.
 Population

India is the population giant of South Asia, seven times

larger than its two neighbors, despite their being sixth and
seventh most populous countries in the world. India's growth
rate is higher than China's: that it is expected to overtake
China's in about 30 years.
Population density is among
the highest in the world but
here it is based on
farming instead
of manufacturing industry.
 Slow Growth of Manufacturing Industry
India missed out on progress during the time of great Asian
industrial growth (1970 and 1990). Nationalist Indian
governments limited the import of goods that would compete
with home industries. Everything had to be made in India, by
Indian companies. Besides, India had its own huge market and
was not export-driven like the
'Asian tigers'. The result was a
lack of poor competition.
Indian products were poor quality,
its industries were outdated
and since overseas companies
were not welcome, there was
nothing to bring about change.
 Development in India

The strong economic growth in India since the 1990s is largely

down to one sector, Information Technology-IT.Of the seven
Indian companies large enough to be included among the
World's Top 500 companies in 2007,three are engaged in
software and computer services.
The IT capital of India
is Bangalore where over 250 hi tech
companies are based, located on
new technology parks around the city.
One of the largest is Electronics City
where we can see a large number of
international companies.
The IT growth in India is explained
by Education and English.
India produces 2 million
graduates a year,80% of
whom are fluent in English,
the international language for
science and technology. Since the 1990s the government has
reserved its warmest welcome for technology- based
multinationals to provide the required expertise that India lacked
in this sector.
A lot of work done by IT companies in India, such as computer
programming and data processing, is for overseas clients. The
work is done just as well as in clients' home countries, but at a
fraction of the cost. The employees of international IT companies
are well-off by local Indian standards. This has beneficial knock-
on effects for other service sectors: each new IT job supports
another job.
 Future Prospects
Indian companies still focus on the home market, unlike many East
Asian countries where industry is export-oriented. Although investment
from overseas companies is now more welcome, a proportion of any
business must be Indian-owned. Therefore, with business and labor
costs similar in China and India, most manufacturing companies chose
China when transferring production overseas. Two most common
complaints about doing business in India are:
1.The time it takes to get anything done: everything is highly regulated;
administration is painfully slow and very bureaucratic.
2.The transport infrastructure is terrible: it costs more to transport a
container from Delhi to docks in Mumbai than to transport it from
Mumbai to the UK.