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1.469%

65.48 years

2.59 births per year

623,724,248

586,469,174

Education and raising up the literacy rate of the population has become the main aim of India. This includes allowing all minorities the “right to establish and administer education institutions of their own,” as mandated under Article 30 (1) of the Constitution.

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• India gives access to the South East Asia. • Gateway via Middle East. • Good coast line with many busy ports

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Natural Gas

Oil

Fishery

• Major marine fish producer

• Employs over 14 million people

Forestry and Crops

• Forestry industry contributed 1.7% to India's GDP

Coal

• Commercial exploitation of coal mining for over 220 years

Minerals

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• 125 Million metric tonne of proven oil reserves as April 2010 • Making it the second-largest amount in the Asia-Pacific region behind China

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Agriculture Mining

• India’s largest industry that involves about 2/3 of the population. • India accounts for 10% of the worlds fruit population • Major Fruit Produce:

• mangos, papayas, and bananas

• Major Crops: • rice, cotton, spices, sugar cane, tea

• Famous for curry spice

• A very important econmic activity which contributes significantly to the economy of India • Major Mining Products:

•Iron ore •Bauxite •Copper ore •Limestone •Petroleum

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One of the fastest developing Economic Superpower with potential to become world 3rd largest economy by 2020

2nd fastest-growing major economy after China. Growth rates of 7.7%

World Ranking:

-10th largest in nominal GDP

-3rd largest PPP

Asia Ranking:

-3rd largest in nominal GDP

-2nd largest PPP

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• Founded since 2006

• By 2011 South Africa was included in what was formerly known as ‘BRIC’

• BRICS’ministers responsible for foreign affairs, finance and the economy, trade, agriculture and health gathering

• At the officials level, discussions are about science and technology, national security, competition and statistics.

• The leaders’ meetings transcend the financial context to embrace a wide range of summit-level issues relating to global governance, such as development, peace and security, energy and climate change, and social issues.

• The BRICS members are all developing or newly industrialised countries, but they are distinguished by their large, fast-growing economies and significant influence on regional and global affairs; all five are G-20 members.

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• India is the Promised Land of scientific and technology research

• 3rd largest scientific and technical manpower in the world – 162 universities award

– 4,000 doctorates

– 35,000 post-graduate degrees

– Council of Scientific and Industrial Research runs 40 research laboratories

• Made remarkable strides achieving 98 per cent indigenisation in launch vehicle technology and 60–70 per cent in satellite technology (Mr M Y S Prasad, Director, Sathish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR at

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Bangalore (Silicon Valley of

India) Global IT hub

Leading software exporter

Hyderabad (Cyberabad)

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Electronic

Arts, At& T

Mumbai Financial capital that now house many IT

companies

Delhi Top software development

Pune (Center for

Development of Adv.

Computing) C-DAC headquarters

Chennai 2nd largest exporter

of IT & ITES. Has TCS & Cognizant

centers

Kolkata Major back-end

operational hub for IBM and Delloite

Bhubaneswar Emerging IT & education hub.

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• Founded in 1968

• Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) focused its activities in India’s immediate neighborhood

• Headquarters in New Delhi • Changes in geo-political interests has lead it to

spread its wings all over the world.

• Employs more than 8,000 field agents across the world

• Under “Top 10 World’s Most Powerful Intelligent Secret Services” along with ASIS, Australian; CIA, USA; BND, Germany; GRU, Russia; DGSE, France; MSS, China; Mossad, Israel; MI6, UK; ISI, Pakistan

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