India an unnatural nation, it has been proved and accepted
at various fronts either national or international, any country around the
world do not has a society so large, so diverse, so disperse and so fragmented
been constituted under a single political roof. One cannot forget what had
happened at the Economic level in the first 30 years, after Independence, when
economy was growing at 3.5 percent. Even at that time the growth rate was
always been a source of criticism, however, the population was growing at the
rate of 2.5 percent, which has left India with no solution how to uplift the
standard of the living of the people.
Nearly after 43 years of Independence the changes in the
policy in 1991 were introduced, this has set the path for growth, by liberalizing
and globalizing the Indian economy. Bold actions and steps were taken by the
political leadership and bureaucrats which, led to a major transformation of Indias economy, resulting in obtaining positive results. The growth rate reached a little
under six percent between 1995 and 2000 became seven percent between 2000 and
2006 and finally reaching to 8.5 and nine percent subsequently.
After all, the growth rate has always been in between eight
or nine percent, last few years, given the size of economy, India should be proud of that. Simultaneously, India was finding share in the global
economy in terms of exports. Though it is just 1.3 percent currently, however,
one should not forget that it was merely 0.6 percent a few decades back. So,
there has been a significant achievement not only in terms of growth rate, but,
also, foreign exchange reserves which were about $ 250 billion now, and never
came into picture because there was a time when the nation of one million was
struggling with the reserve of just two to five billion dollars has increased
substantially.
Considering all these factors and the rapid pace of Indias
rise, Country still have certain solid pillars of growth which were always been
helpful to further increase importance of India at World stage . Some of them
are as follows:
- It is one of the largest economies in the world.
- India has a very significant skilled manpower and a professional cadre.
- India was getting much more global in terms of manufacturing knowledge.
- India has one of the largest pools of scientists, technicians, engineers
and managers in the world today.
- India in 2008 had graduate 500,000 engineers which if we compare with United States and Germany the figure will be around 75,000 and 25,000 engineers.
- India has one of the youngest populations in the world, which has been a
huge strategic advantage.
New Government:
Amid when the whole world is trying to combat the economic
crisis, India one of the largest democracies of the world were going through a
time to elect the new leadership for the Nation. Although, India fared much better than others in terms of crises, however, it cannot deny the fact that it was
also affected by the problem which requires solution at the global level.
The new government comes to power at a very difficult time,
however, Government was aware that the country has proved to be less immune to
the global economic crisis than was originally supposed; stimulus packages and
populist policies have left the country with a disturbingly high deficit.
However, the government was more confident, the reasons were, there will be not
much opposition from allies thanks to the positive election results. The
initial signs look promising from the new government towards their agenda for
growth, for example starting a national urban poverty mission to complement the
last terms rural employment guarantee scheme, spurt the revenue of government
by disinvesting select state owned enterprises, also, reduction in lending
rates to poor and farmers and Auction of 3G and Wimax licenses to spur further
growth in the broadband Internet business.