| | September 20218COVID-19 has revealed the fra-gility of the global medical and health, food, electric-ity, cars, telecommunications equipment, electronics, and numer-ous other products'supply chains. Some businesses have started to set up more locations to reconfigure their procurement and production facilities and achieve more reliability and dura-bility in their supply chains. Manufacturing is one of the high-consumption industries in India. India's initiative "Made in India" positions India on the world map and pays global attention to the Indian economy. The government plans to create 100 million new jobs by 2022. The GDP manufacturing sector expanded by an average of 9.5 percent per year between the fiscal year 2006 and fiscal year 2012. Then growth decreased to 7.4 percent over the next six years. Manufacturing accounted for 17.4 per cent of India's GDP in the fiscal year 2020, compared to 15.3 per cent in 2000.In the past 13 years, India's manufacturing share of the jobs sector has increased by just one percentage point over the past 13 years compared with the five- point growth in the services industry.Germany will either be establishing or developing production facilities in India attracted by the Indian market of more than a Milliarden of customers and growing buying power. India is now attractive to the world's giants such as GE, Siemens, HTC, Toshiba and Boeing. India was among the top 10 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) rewarders in South Asia in 2019, receiving USD 49 billion, a 16 percent improvement on the prior year, according to United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).From April 2000 to March 2020, cumulative foreign direct investment (FDI) crossed US$ 89.40 billion in the Indian manufacturing sector. In May 2020, the Indian government increased defence FDI from 49 percent to 74 percent under the automatic path.NEW INVESTMENTS AND GROWTH IN THE NEW INVESTMENTS BY Rajesh Khosla,President & CEO, AGI GlaspacVANTAGE POINTSahil Bansal,Co-founder & CEO
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