The slide was prepared in collaboration with Praneet Sharma at IIIT-Delhi. This presentation shows the various factors that is holding India back from becoming a super power. What do you think??

1. Can India make it to the
League of an Economic
Super Power in the next
25 years?
An Effort By:-
Sahil Jain
Praneet Sharma

2. INDIA… Till Date
 $11.3 billion takeover of Corus by Mumbai-
based Tata Steel, was the biggest acquisition ever
by an Indian firm.
 The total estimated value of mergers and
acquisitions in India for 2007 was greater than
$100 billion.
 India has become nuclear power.
 India has posted 4 straight years of 8% growth;
since its economy was liberalized in 1991.

3. BUT....

4. Long Way to GO……….
 47% of Indian children under the age of 5 are either
malnourished or stunted.
 The adult literacy rate is 61%.
 Only 10% of the entire Indian labor force works in
the formal economy.
 The enrollment of 6-15 years old in school has
actually declined in the last year.”
 Ranks 96 in the Global Hunger Index; about half of
the world's hungry live in India.
 India has more people with HIV than any other
country.

5.  Only 585 rural hospitals compared to 985 urban
hospitals in the country.
 Kaveri river Dispute still going on.
 Communal Violence and Racialism.
 According to United Nations calculations, India today
allocates lower than 1% of GDP to health which is the
18th lowest in the world.
 The HDI for India is 0.619, which gives the country a
rank of 128th
out of 177 countries.
 According to World Bank, India is also one of the most
under-banked major markets in the world.
*Sources: UNDP, UNICEF, World Food Program, CIA

6. GDP Comparison
*source: Central Intelligence Agency

7. INFRASTRUCTURE
 Power shortage is estimated at 12% at peak levels and
8% at non-peak levels.
 The national highways account for 2% of total road
length.
 Indian ports have a vessel turnaround time of 3-5
days, as against only 4-6 hours in Singapore and
Hong Kong.
 Cargo traffic dips to 5% from last years 14%.

8. TOURISM
In India, tourism accounts for 6% of GDP.
*Source : World Economic Forum
Rank Country Continent Receipts (2006)
1 USA North America $85.7 billion
2 Spain Europe $51.1 billion
3 France Europe $42.9 billion
4 Italy Europe $38.1 billion
5 China Asia $33.9 billion
6 United
Kingdom
Europe $33.7 billion
7 Germany Europe $32.8 billion
8 Australia Oceania $17.8 billion
9 Turkey Europe $16.9 billion
10 Austria Europe $16.7 billion
65 India Asia $2.61 billion.

9. The Green Effect
 340 million people dependent largely on
agricultural wage labor, $1 or less a day.
 Contributes 16.6% to the GDP.
 Growth declined from 3.8% to 2.6% last year.
 In last 2 years on an average more than
17,000 farmers have committed suicide.
 Money-lenders asking for up to 32% of
interest.

10. ill-Literacy
*Source: Academic Ranking of World Universities
• According to UNESCO India has over 35% of the
world’s total illiterate population.
• About 40 million primary school-age children in
India are not in school.
• More than 92 % children cannot progress beyond
secondary school.
COUNTRTY No. of UNIVERSITIES POPULATION
INDIA 348 1.2 billion
U.S. 3650 301 million
JAPAN 4000 127 million

11.  35% schools don’t have infrastructure such as
blackboards and furniture.
 Although Indian universities churn out 3 million
graduates a year, only 15% of them are suitable
employees for blue-chip companies.
*source: Central Intelligence Agency

12. The Tech-Master
 India’s lack of success in exporting electronics
hardware to the global market.
 Lacked the technology or equipments to detect and
preempt the widespread use of liquid explosives by
terrorist.
 India lacks technology to build BrahMos missile's
liquid fuel ramjet engine.
 Billions of dollars were being appropriated and not
spent on projects like India’s Kaveri jet engine, the
Arjun Tank, etc.
 The Arjun main-battle tank not at all ready even
after 32 years of development work.

13. Socio-Economic Imbalance
 Corruption is a large loophole in Indian growth.
 India 85th in world corruption index in 180
countries*.
 World Bank withheld $2 billions in funds for the
health sector.
 Discrimination in the name of Caste, Women ,God.
 20% of rural habitations have partial or no access
to a safe drinking-water supply.
* Source: IBNlive.com, Human Rights Watch(hrw.org),World Bank

14. Be an INDIAN!
 Grace of “Firangi”.
 Sensex down by 59%.
 20% of our money gone by FDI upliftment.
 60% of import is “crude oil” leads to high inflation.
 Rights of an individual.

15. ONE MORE THING