Electronics and Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry

Getting all that isn't entirely in our hands, it depends on (((foreign cooperation))) to start with.

In the 80s and 90s China got that in droves, Deep State and Corporates were entirely in sync, signing FTAs with China, getting them in WTO and appeasing them in general.

Here nobody wants FTA with us among the consooming countries, being insistent on us allowing agricultural imports knowing we won't agree, export competitiveness is nowhere are close as the SEAsian countries.

Before Gobi we also had a total sellout class of politicians/bureaucrats allowing the dhandhos to import everything instead of buying local since it was so cheep, domestic producers could never compete, today in mobile phone manufacturing whatever you see is because we have hiked duties on direct imports so you have assembly shops atleast and Samsung/Apple export some portion of the production because it meets their own corporate objectives.

others just have their big production/assembly sites in Vietnam.

China also has the unique benefit of no elections, no freebies and not "socialist" drama, they can afford to give generous subsidies and loans to factories, and workers just work without going for union chimpouts that are hard even for politicos like Stalin to stamp out.

They can build and overbuild Infra because there are no mob protests and no PILs filed and no Meelards freezing land acquisition or infra building.
This is an illusion of China's development model. China's development is not as smooth and easy as the above mentioned. The process is full of hardships and difficulties, and the price paid is also very high, there are successes and failures.
 
After a brief period of actually helping this thing has single-handedly caused perhaps the most damage; as it gave this false sense of security that we're the IT superpower. We didn't bother focusing on 99 other extremely important industries, we started closing down non-IT programs in colleges, obviously because students stopped taking admissions in anything else, the most crucial phase of a child's life (9th to 12th) got wasted becoming coaching-zombies...all mostly for jobs that everyone else thought to be too menial to do.

A true IT superpower outside Silicon Valley would be something like Tel Aviv, where the importance of work being done Vs people engaged in doing that is significantly higher.

IT Superpower for us is very much like those 1974 fibreglass helmets that we wear so proudly. For the soldiers it give a false sense of security but in reality it'd crumble as soon as engaged.
Every country need one sector which should boom & encourage other sectors to build.

What IT sector does for India:-

1. Bring more money to India
2. Bring more taxes to govt.
3. Promote indirect jobs and other sectors to flourish.
4. Now we have money, can invest in other areas and promote other industries.
5. Middle class created, increases their buying power and due to this other sectors flourishing.
6. Thru IT people scattered across world and get recognition, now same image used in other areas. This promoted our credibility in other sectors also across world.

I m not saying we doing big thing in IT, i am saying it brings money and help out to build other sectors.
 

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