@cvkrishnan
1. It's not people's fault - here manufacturing pays very little won't even make ends meet, you can't expect to live well on 20 k per month (Chinas secret, they kept costs low, plus double employment in family) so people moved to manufacturing. Caste adds another dynamic
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To explain-
1. India’s labour costs and demand for work conditions in mfg is not the same as China/Vietnam/Thailand. Here graduates will rather wait for more than half a decade to get a govt desk job than work mfg. unionisation is also high here compared to other countries.…
India can’t do what China did in mfg for various reasons. When China took up mfg there was not another low cost factory of the world. Not the case for India today. Globalisation sentiment is downhill. More automation has proliferated across the factory floor. Also the kind of…
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@SaktiGounder265
So true. There’s the dimension of dignity of labour that is caste and class related.
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@cvkrishnan
Also ITIs are getting closed, losing their sheen (At least the TN government has woken up now). Where to get skilled workers ??
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@cvkrishnan
2. Our environmental rules are strong on paper. It will be used only if you don't give commission.All our corporates will pollute unless someone finds out(Be it Sterlite, Tanneries in ambur or Tiruppur textiles).I recently went to 3 industrial cities in Guj, pollution everywhere
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@SaktiGounder265
Either way raises the costs of the manufacturer in comparison to legally pollution allowing nations
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@cvkrishnan
China has on site housing for almost all their factories. Something almost no indian company builds
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@bakchodgang1
@SaktiGounder265
Cultural differences exist too. Our workers wouldn’t want to miss key functions of near and dear whatever be the economic situations. China workers when they move from villages to factory stay in Alfie year and take hols only during new year or so.
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@cvkrishnan
3. Definitely, automation will mean that we can never move as many people into manufacturing like China did
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@SaktiGounder265
@cvkrishnan
Because of the bubble in real estate, the land is expensive which makes everything expensive.
Hence it's hard for an ordinary SME entrepreneur to set up the shop in the first place after which there is regular extortions by Babu.
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@drJekyllhyde99
@cvkrishnan
Yes !!! Unspoken reason for Tiruppur declining as well. Land costs, water scarcity and traffic !!!
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@cvkrishnan
Compared to china , South Korea,Japan n now Vietnam was there pay good when they were silent becoming manufacturing hud.or are we comparing Manuf pay with those payed in IT infra?
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