Come 2020 and the “Make in India” campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 09/2014 seems to be heading into its most decisive phase. We are yet to see the impact of the campaign on the 25 target sectors of the Indian economy as very little analytical studies are available on the subject.
Nevertheless, the expansion of manufacturing sector in terms of investment, capacity, sales and economic value addition takes time sequentially. India has moderately priced resources and quality skillsets to build globally competitive manufacturing excellence, however, we are poor presenters and by and large bad salespeople as compared to our western and far eastern counterparts, consequently our products seldom reach international shores.