NMP will change India into manufacturing hub in next 10 years: Sharma

28 Jan 2013 Evaluate

With the government taking a number of measures to boost growth and effectively putting in place 'single-window clearance' mechanism, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma expects India to become a manufacturing hub in the next 10 years. With the National Manufacturing Policy (NMP) taking off, which was announced in 2011 will create national investment and manufacturing zones involving green-field projects.

While addressing a summit organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Sharma said that the government has set a target to increase the share of manufacturing in the country's gross domestic product (GDP) to 26% in 10 years from around 16% now and create 100 million skilled jobs.

Expressing the need of high growth, Sharma said that high growth is not an option but an imperative and one decade of high growth is not going to change the things, we need many more decades of high growth. By adding further he said, the social dimension is a larger issue for growth and if these issues are not addressed, then the social cost will be unbearable.

Regarding the job creation, Sharma said that the NMP now is being implemented and would help achieve the set targets. By adding further, he said that the government's policy has to be focused on creating jobs as nearly 200 million people are estimated to join workforce in a decade. Further, out of global labour force of 3.3 billion, 200 million people were unemployed and over 900 million earned less than $2 a day. Over the next decade we are faced with a challenge of creating 600 million jobs globally as 400 million new entrants will enter the labour market, he added.

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