Why can't India be a World-Class Player in Manufacturing Industry as it is in IT & BPO Sectors?

India has a huge amount of trained manpower and resources. So, the only problem of India being the leading country in manufacturing is its lack of infrastructure and the non-cooperation of the government. A BPO or an IT company merely needs a few computers, few small rooms and huge amount of manpower, not necessarily has to be trained. They could be trained in a month. Whereas manufacturing companies needs small but highly trained manpower, skilled labour, expensive machinaries, Huge infrastructure. So, this requires huge amount of investment.

Lots of hurdles in the Indian government and public sectors discourage high amount of investment to flow in the country. Corruption, inefficiency in every sectors of the government, elongated process time of applications etc. Are the key issues for disinvestment in the country. Indian political leaders and policy makers are also reluctant about manufacturing industries because they may be providing better economic development to the state but the IT companies provide more mediocre, stereotype jobs which is very much necessary to increase the vote-bank. IT companies don't want brains and innovative ideas, they only want a few 'overqualified clerks' to work for them at a 'cheap' rate. So, they outsource their work to developing countries and exploit the young Indian brains leaving them in a 'still developing' country. The only way to enhance Indian Economic and Technological scenario is to stress hardly on manufacturing industries as they can provide the necessary growth for the country.

Well, summarizing the above points: says that problem is with INDIA and its system.

But have we ever fought for the right, do we have unity, Do we have patience to wait for the best and go ahead and lead the system.

No youth in this generation is ready to take risk in India. Same time no youth has patience to fight against corruption for long time till it ends.

Apart from this, From the birth of a child, 80% parents needs their child to become software engineer and move to abroad. 60% students who score high and have got high talents move to abroad within a short period and will not turn back to India, 20% average students come up with mechanical engineer degree. And few in this who have high scores move to software later after degree due to low payments in manufacturing industry. The rest 20% who get the least scored and have no tensions in their mind and wants their life to be smooth. These people ambition would be to get a small home, get married, get a small car. Lead a simple life.

Finally Almost all Indian are in race to earn money rather development.

Or worst way to say Indians have become selfish and least worried about development with low salaries.

So manufacturing industries in India needs to pay high to remain and grow in India.

In my opinion we have enough natural resources in our country for our manufacturing sector, there are some countries like Japan, Singapore having no natural resources even than they having good manufacturing sector. In man power we have more than enough manpower in our country, mainly our country's man power is unskilled so we can make them semiskilled/skilled by starting some training center for them so we can utilized them for manufacturing sector.

The main reason behind India not being a major player in manufacturing industry is because of less capable and unskilled worker. Manufacturing industry requires highly skilled worker as compared to IT and BPO sector. Another striking hurdle is that India do not have enough sophisticated infrastructure which is an integral part for a manufacturing industry. Indian citizen are happy to work with low labor intensive job with a descent salary as compared to high intensive labor work in manufacturing industry with low salary.

And the last player for IT and BPO sector winning the race is because of many MNCs supporting the IT industry whereas resources required for manufacturing industry is in control of government which has always been a sloggy player for Indian development.

The secondary sector (manufacturing industry) in India is slow in race compared to primary and tertiary sectors.

The reasons are the same which are mentioned by the other members.

But why can't India learn from china which is presently the largest manufacturer in the world.

Going back to the 1975 and 1980's the industrial sector in both the counties are more over the same. But from 80's the china showed a rapid growth in the industrial sector surpassing the world majors like USA and Japan.

If a country like china which shares a lot common problems could make it, then India should at least try to achieve at least half of the its industrial growth.

And surely the government should provide a helping hand.

According to me, Indian are too lazy so they want a job which gives them comfort hence in BPO and it companies there is no more field work in comparison with manufacturing therefore India is lacking.

After analysing the points given above, in my opinion it takes time to develope any sector and same case with manufacturing sector. It is not so we do not have skilled worker or a labourforce but thing is that first we have developed our agriculture sectore then we moved to manufacturing sector and without completing it we moved to service sector. Indias does not have sufficient infrastructure to develope their manufacturing.

Actually the main problem is that in manufacturing industries we need a lot of investment and lot of technology for proper working and to compete with the world player and your government is not so serious in investing money in industries.

In my point though India has more manufacturer compared to other countries, there is lack of electricity for the domestic supply itself. I think this is also one of the reason that we can't be the world class in manufacturing.

I feel the basic reason behind this lies in the fact on the quality of education which we get, we are following same education system from post independence and this was designed by Britishers who just wanted us to do clerical works for them, so they emphasized on theoretical education which we still follow, right. Till class 10 we had very less or no practical approach to our studies and in many ways in even after.

What we lack is quality technical institutes, yes we do have some of these, but can be counted on fingers when compared to what we actually need.

Like one of my friend said (above) countries like japan, Singapore are doing well despite of their low natural resource, India having enough of it is lacking behind as it is efficient personnel's to utilize them.