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1} Bharat Forge has the world's largest singlelocation
forging facility, its clients include
Honda, Toyota and Volvo amongst others.
2} Hero Honda with 1.7M motorcycles a year
Is now the largest motorcycle manufacturer
in the world.
3} India is the 2nd largest tractor manufacturer
in the world.
4} India is the 5th largest commercial vehicle
manufacturer in the world.
5} Ford has just presented its Gold World
Excellence Award to India's Cooper Tyres.
6} Suzuki, which makes Maruti in India has
decided to make India its manufacturing,
export and research hub outside Japan.
7} Hyundai India is set to become the global
small car hub for the Korean giant and will
produce 25k Santros to start with.
8} By 2010 it is set to supply half a million
cars to Hyundai Korea. HMI and Ford.
9} The prestigious UK automaker, MG Rover
is marketing 100,000 Indica cars made by
Tata in Europe, under its own name.
10} Aston Martin contracted prototyping its latest luxury
sports car, AM V8 Vantage, to an Indian-based designer
and is set to produce the cheapest Aston Martin ever.
India: Trade
_Tata Motors paid $ 118 million to buy Daewoo
commercial vehicle Company of Korea.
_ Ranbaxy, the largest Indian pharmaceutical
company, gets 70% of its $1 billion revenue
from overseas operations and 40% from USA.
_Tata Tea has bought Tetley of UK for £260M.
_India is one of the world's largest diamond
cutting and polishing centres, its exports were
worth $6 Billion in 1999.
_About 9 out of 10 diamond stones sold
anywhere in the world, pass through India.
_Garment exports are expected to increase from
the current level of $6 billion to $25 billion by
2010.
_ The country's foreign exchange reserves
stand at an all-time high of $120 Billion.
_ India's trade with China grew by by 104% in
2002 and in the first 5 months of 2003, India
has amassed a surplus in trade close to $0.5M.
_ Mobile phones are growing by about 1.5Million
a month. Long distance rates are down by twothirds
in five years and by 80% for data
transmission.
_ Wal-Mart sources $1 Billion worth of goods
from India - half its apparel. Wal-Mart
expects this to increase to $10 Billion in the
next couple of years.
_GAP sources about $600 million and Hilfiger
$100 million worth of apparel from India.
India: Self-Reliance
_ India is among six countries that launch
satellites and do so even for Germany,
Belgium, South Korea,
Singapore and EU countries.
_India's INSAT is among
the world's largest
domestic satellite
communication systems.
_ India’s Geosynchronous
Satellite Launch Vehicle
(GSLV) was indigenously manufactured with
most of the components like motor cases,
inter-stages, heat shield, cryogenic engine,
electronic modules all manufactured by
public and private Indian industry.
_ Kalpana Chawla was one of
the seven astronauts in the
Columbia space shuttle
when it disintegrated over
Texas skies just 16 minutes
before its scheduled landing
on Feb 1st 2003, she was the
second Indian in space.
_ Back in 1968, India imported 9M tonnes of
food-grains to support its people, through a
grand programme of national self-sufficiency
which started in 1971, today, it now has a food
grain surplus stock of 60M.
_ India is among the 3 countries in the World
that have built Supercomputers on their own.
The other two countries being USA and Japan.
_India built its own Supercomputer after the
USA denied India purchasing a Cray computer
back in 1987.
_India’s new ‘PARAM Padma’ Terascale
Supercomputer (1 Trillion
processes per sec.) is also
amongst only 4 nations in
the world to have this
capability.
_ India is providing aid to 11 countries, writingoff
their debt and loaning the IMF $300M.
_ It has also prepaid $3Billion owed to the
World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
India: Pharmaceuticals
_ The Indian pharmaceutical industry at $6.5 billion and growing at 8-10%
annually, is the 4th largest pharmaceutical industry in the world, and is
expected to be worth $12 billion by 2008.
_ Its exports are over $2 billion. India is among the top five bulk drug makers and at
home, the local industry has edged out the Multi-National companies whose share
of 75% in the market is down to 35%.
_ Trade of medicinal plants has crossed $900M already.
_There are 170 biotechnology companies in India, involved in the development
and manufacture of genomic drugs, whose business is growing exponentially.
_ Sequencing genes and delivering genomic information for big
Pharmaceutical companies is the next boom industry in India.
India: BPO
_The domestic BPO sector is projected to increase to $4 billion in 2004 and reach
$65 billion by 2010. (McKinsey & Co.).
_ The outsourcing includes a wide range of services including
design, architecture, management, legal services, accounting
and drug development and the Indian BPOs are moving up
in the value chain.
_There are about 200 call centers in India with a turnover of
$2 billion and a workforce of 150,000.
_100 of the Fortune 500 are now present in India compared to 33 in China.
_ Cummins of USA uses its R&D Centre in Pune to develop the sophisticated
computer models needed to design upgrades and prototypes electronically and
introduce 5 or 6 new engine models a year.
_ Business Week of 8th December 2003 has said "Quietly but with breathtaking speed,
India and its millions of world-class engineering, business and medical graduates are becoming
enmeshed in America's New Economy in ways most of us barely imagine".
India: Technology Superpower
_ Over 100 MNCs have set up R&D facilities in India in the past five years.
These include GE, Bell Labs, Du Pont, Daimler Chrysler, Eli Lilly, Intel,
Monsanto, Texas Instruments, Caterpillar, Cummins, GM, Microsoft and IBM.
_ India’s telecom infrastructure between Chennai, Mumbai and Singapore,
provides the largest bandwidth capacity in the world, with well over
8.5 Terabits (8.5Tbs) per second.
_ With more than 250 universities, 1,500 research institutions and 10,428
higher-education institutes, India produces 200,000 engineering
graduates and another 300,000 technically trained graduates every year.
_ Besides, another 2 million other graduates qualify out in India annually.
_ The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is among the top three
universities from which McKinsey & Company, the world's biggest
consulting firm, hires most.
So,
Now u can belive "INDIA is Great"...........
On the third part u will see that ouotes of the Great persons about INDIA...........
" Falling Leaves"