INDIA A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY

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INDIA A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY

• Prof. M. S. ANANTH
• DirectorIndian Institute of Technology Madras
• CHENNAI 600 036

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INDIA

• Facts
• Gats
• Information Technology
• Space
• Nuclear
• Biotechnology
• Telecommunication
• Manufacturing

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SOME FACTS

• Amazing scale and diversity of India
• The worlds 11th largest economy
• The 6th largest emitter of carbon dioxide!
• 279 universities, 4 m science/engineering
  students
• 7.5 m students 350,000 teachers poor
  infrastructure!
• Magnet for labour-intensive, customer services
• Over 100 IT and science-based firms have located
  RD labs in India in the last 5 years
• Remarkable impact of the IT industry on the
  economy

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WTO GATS

• India involved in all 4 recognised modes
• Cross-border supply distance education mainly
  to Indian diaspora abroad - IGNOU
• Consumption abroad 1m Indians studying abroad,
  7800 foreigners in India (2002)
• Commercial presence 27 franchised programmes in
  2001, no foreign campus yet
• Movement of natural persons poor overall

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THE IT INDUSTRY

• Large western companies do very sophisticated
  work in India
• Significant section of the next generation of
  technology companies will have research
  facilities here
• There is intellectual muscle, money and a growing
  domestic market
• Real fear in west of being Bangalored tomorrow
• Immigration of technology experts to the US more
  innovation to east

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SPACE PROGRAMME

• Largely self-sufficient
• Six remote-sensing satellites constitute the
  largest such constellation in the world to
  monitor land coastal waters and advise rural
  communities on
• location of aquifers and watercourses
• building small dams to collect rainwater for
  recharging
• when to set sail for the best catch of fish
• forewarn government about impending crop failures
• warn coastal communities of imminent storms

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SPACE PROGRAMME
(Contd.)

• Seven communication satellites
• television coverage to 90 of the population
• help in disaster-warning systems and
• extend healthcare / education to the rural poor
• Rocket (GSLV) can lift large satellites into
  geostationary orbit, 36,000 kilometers up
• World's first satellite dedicated to providing
  support for educational projects
• World's largest, least expensive low-frequency
  radio telescope (GMRT)

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NUCLEAR INDUSTRY

• Small stocks of oil and gas and uranium
• About a quarter of the world's supply of thorium
• Nuclear vision is to use these reserves
• Water moderated reactors converting non-fissile
  uranium-238 into fissile plutonium-239
• Fast breeder reactor providing more plutonium
  than is used as fuel
• The worlds first working plant fuelled by
  Uranium 233

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BIOTECHNOLOGY

• Pharmaceutical industry restructuring itself to
  take on the world
• Bioengineered replacements for damaged body parts
• Pioneering innovative stem-cell-based therapy for
  restoring sight to victims of chemical accidents
• Significant technical advances in applying limbal
  stem cell grafting
• GM crops (since 2002) to tackle hunger
• GM route to produce disease resistance and
  drought tolerance in crops

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Inexpensive technologies developed by the TENET
  group of the IIT Madras in Chennai now provide
  always on internet connection in remote
  villages
• Locals can surf the web and access emails
• Virtual consultations with a doctor
• Weekly QA hour with farming experts in a
  metropolis

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STUDENT MOBILITY EQUATION

• 2000-2001 2002-2003

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THE HOT CITIES
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THE HOT JOBS
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SOCIAL SERVICE

• Rural Development
• Distance Education
• Telecommunication