Incredible !ndia

The saffron stands for courage, sacrifice and the spirit of renunciation.

The white, for purity and truth.

The green for faith and fertility.

The Ashoka Wheel in the centre of the white is the wheel of the law of dharma. The wheel denotes motion. There is life in movement. The wheel represents the dynamism of a peaceful change.

India

HISTORYIndus ValleyOne of the world’s oldest civilisation – 3000 B.C.

VedasThe Vedas are perhaps the oldest written text on our planet today. – 800 B.C.

Number SystemIndia invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta in 458 A.D.

TakshashilaThe world’s first university was established in Takshashila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.

SanskritSanskrit is the mother of all the European languages – a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987

AyurvedaAyurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans .Vedic system of health care developed in India over 5000 years ago.

Mahatma Gandhi

Subhash Chandra Bose Bhagat Singh

The Great DynastiesBy 6th century BC, the Magadh rulers dominated the Northern plains.

The Muslim InvasionsThe first Muslim invasions of the country started with the Mahmud of Gazni, who plundered the sub-continent for its riches between 1001 and 1025.

British RuleBy the last quarter of the 18th century the English established themselves as the dominant power in India.

Towards IndependenceMohandas Karamchand Gandhi led India’s freedom struggle through non-violence and civil disobedience. India became independent on August 15, 1947.

Today, India is the world's largest democracy with a federal form of government.

HISTORY

DIVERSITY

• RELIGION• LANGUAGES• ATTIRE• FOOD• FESTIVALS• DANCES• MUSIC• TERRAIN• ARCHITECTURE

PARADIGM OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN INDIA

M A J O R R E L I G I O N S O F I N D I A

• Hinduism • Islam • Sikhism • Christianity • Buddhism • Jainism • Zoroastrianism

RELIGIONS

JAMA MASJID

GOLDEN TEMPLE

THE CHURCH OF ST. CATHEDRAL, GOA

THE BUDDHA

LANGUAGES

• Over 1600 dialects

• Fifteen national languages recognized by the Indian constitution

Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Oriya, Telugu and Urdu.

ATTIRE

THE SAREE…

ATTIRE

AND OTHER DRESSES

FOOD

KONARKARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECTURE

THE LOTUS TEMPLE

MODERN ARCHITECTURE

DANCES

MUSIC

FESTIVALS

THERAPYYOGA

AYURVEDA

UNANI

MODERN MEDICAL

THERAPY

THERAPY

AYURVEDA

DIVERSITY

UNITY IN DIVERSITY

……A WAY OF LIFE

….AND THE CHALLNGES

• COMMON CIVIL CODE• INHERITENCE LAWS

THE MIGHTY TERRORISM ….……….AND THE PETTY RELIGIOUS &

POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS

PEOPLE OF INDIA

ACHIEVERS

Sabeer Bhatia - Founder of Hotmail

Vinod Khosla - Co Founder of Sun Micro Systems

Vinod Dham – Creator of Pentium chips

Narayan Murthy- Infosys founder

Azim Premji- Founder of WIPRO

FACTS AND FIGURES

Area3,287,590 sq km

Population1,049,700,118 Age structure0-14 years: 32.2% (male 173,973,350; female 163,979,116) 15-64 years: 63% (male 342,620,712; female 319,259,867) 65 years and over: 4.8% (male 25,281,756; female 24,585,317) (2003 est.)

GDP$ 600 billioncomposition by sectoragriculture: 25% industry: 25% services: 50% (2002)Exports$ 52 billion

Per Capita Income$ 500

Literacy59.5%

Population below poverty line25% (2002)

Source - CIA

ADVANTAGE INDIA

Strong pool of scientific and technical manpower. Prowess of IITs, IIMs and ISB well known. One of the largest English-speaking population.

India rated as the most attractive destination for offshore business processing by global consultancy A T Kearney.

India is the 4th largest economy, in terms of purchasing power parity. Tenth most industrialized economy.

Political stability and broad consensus on reforms. Liberal and transparent foreign investment regime. Strong and independent judicial system.

Well developed banking system. Vibrant capital market. National Stock Exchange third largest, Bombay Stock Exchange fifth largest in terms of number of trades.

Among the highest rates of returns on investment. Profitability of US investments in India: 19.33% in 2000 (according to US Department of Commerce).

CHALLENGES

Roads: 7000 kms of National Highways being offered during the current year.

Urban Infrastructure: Development of townships for the rapidly growing, increasingly affluent urban middle class.

Ports: Government of India's initiative of developing ports – ‘Sagar Mala' with an investment of $22 billion.

Power: Addition of 100,000 MW required over the next 10 years. Installed capacity 106,000 MW. Hydro-electric initiative to develop 50,000 MW.

Telecommunications: Cellular phones increasing @ 1.5 million every month. Figure to rise to 100 million in the next 3-4 years.

GREAT MACRO-ECONOMIC SHOW

India among world's fastest growing economies. (Graph on top right shows Indian GDP growth since 1996-97). GDP grew 8.3% in the last quarter.

Average GDP growth of 5.4% during the 9th Five-Year Plan (1997-2002).

Exports registered growth of over 19% in 2002-03.

Foreign exchange reserves at an all-time high of over $100 billion.

Increase in forex during the fiscal year in 2002-03: $20 billion.

India's economic growth is sustained.

The nation's GDP is expected to grow by over 7.0 % this year.

A PROACTIVE FDI POLICY

Attracting compulsory licensing; or for acquisition of shares in an existing company.

Sectors not open to FDI. (Gambling, lottery, et cetera.)

Foreign technology collaborations freely allowed under automatic and government approval routes.

India FDI Outlook India rated best destination for outsourcing

and 6th most attractive destination for FDI, according to AT Kearney.

Major destination for foreign venture capital funds. Pie chart, right bottom, shows country-wise FDI inflows. Among top 10 tourist destinations.

Modernisation of legislations on intellectual property. All IPR Laws are TRIPS compliant. Intellectual Property Appellate Tribunal functional.

INDIA@FutureBy 2050, India will be world’s third largest

economy after China and US

- Goldman Sachs, 2003.