Infrastructure
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India's vast population, industrial growth and rapidly
growing middle class - with an insatiable appetite for road
and air travel - put massive pressure on the country's
infrastructure.
Everywhere in India, visitors encounter traffic jams,
potholed roads and crowded airports and railway stations.
But increasingly they also see huge construction projects
from metro systems to elevated expressways...
Energy
Energy for 125000 villages
India has a very pressing need to provide electricity to
people in remote and rural areas to support their social and
economic development.
This is a high priority of the Indian Government, which is
electrifying 125,000 villages at a cost of more than NZD 8
billion over 2007-2012. The need to supply electricity to
areas far...
Clean Tech
Even on conservative projections, India must more than
double its primary energy supply and quadruple electricity
generation over the coming 25 Years.
The Report of the Expert Committee on Integrated Energy
Policy - part of India's powerful Planning Commission -
envisages an increase in power generation from a current
level of 160,000 megawatts to about 800,000...
Consumer
Honey: an export opportunity?
Recent scandals about contamination of honey in India could
represent a golden opportunity for fast-moving kiwi
exporters.
Early this year Indian honey exports to the EU were blocked
due to tests showing antibiotics and heavy metal
contamination. Indian authorities have blamed the problem on
Chinese honey being “laundered” through India to
sidestep an EU ban and US...
India's emerging cities
Cities are engines of economic growth around the world, and
India is no exception. Some recent reports from
international consultancies shed light on India’s emerging
cities, and the huge role they will play in the country’s
economic future.
The established metros – Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and
Chennai – are traditionally top-of-mind for foreign
companies wishing to enter...
Education
Education reforms
Since it's re-election in May 2009 India's United
Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has announced a slew
of reforms in education. In its 'first 100 days' agenda
for education, the government passed landmark legislation on
elementary education, launched a major push to provide
secondary education to all 15-19 year olds and floated
various reform proposals for higher...
Agribusiness
World's largest market for everthing dairy
India ranks among the world's largest and fastest-growing
markets for milk and milk products.
The market size in value terms for milk and milk products,
including the organised and unorganised sector, is of the
order of US$47.6 billion (INR 200,000 crore), a base of
95-odd million tonnes, growing at nearly 7.5 per cent
annually. India is...
Appetite for growth - agriculture and food processing sectors
India is one of the largest and fastest-growing markets for
food and agricultural products in the world.
Agriculture is a mainstay of the Indian economy, accounting
for about 18.5% of GDP. Some salient features of the Indian
agricultural economy are as follows:
Overall, India is the world's third largest producer of
food
India has...
