Population explosion Modernization Growing Pharmaceutical

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Indias Culture
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Indias culture

• Language
• Sometimes difficult to communicate
• Different languages from village to village.
• Areas used to be isolated and developed own
  languages.
• Common Languages
• Over 1000 languages/dialects spoken in India.
• The official language of India is Hindi, but is
  spoken by less than ½ the population.
• English is taught to help bridge the gap.
• Reading and writing skills
• Literacy rate 61 (one of the lowest of
  industrialized nations.)
• Use of pictures instead of words on signs so
  illiterate can understand.
• Education is free for all children up to fourteen
  but only about 50 percent of the children attend
  school because they need to work to help family.

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Hindi Alphabet
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EDUCATION IN INDIA
Students at a Medical university in India
Younger students in school.
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Indias Culture

• Social Issues
• A. The Money Gap
• Huge gap between very wealthy and very poor.
• A middle class has recently emerged, but majority
  of people have little or no money and live in
  poverty.
• B. A Lack of Jobs
• High unemployment rate.
• College educated people often take jobs they are
  not trained to do.
• C. Little opportunity for women
• Girls often stay at home and work while boys go
  to school
• Many never learned to read or write and can not
  get jobs.
• Often have to do toughest jobs but get lowest
  wages
• Changes are beginning to occur. Women are
  starting to get equal rights and opportunities in
  all areas of life.

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Poverty in India
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Working in India
Children working in India
Timkin Steel plant in India
Women and Children Weaving cloth
Carpet Weaving -
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POPULATION EXPLOSION!!!
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Population explosion
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Modernization
Growing Pharmaceutical industry
Modern Cities
Largest Film Industry in the World over 800
movies produced per year.
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Outsourcing from U.S. to India
FORD Motor Company Plant in India
Technology outsourced to India
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Why outsource to India????
Outsourcing Video

• It has one of the worlds largest pools of
  highly educated, English-speaking workers (250
  million), many with scientific and technical
  skills. By 2010, India is expected to be the
  largest English-speaking country in the world.
• India has very low wages. Starting salaries for
  IT engineers in India range from 5,000-10,000,
  low by US standards but very attractive in a
  country with a per capita annual income of 500.

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Indias Economy breaks into Top Ten!
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