TY - GEN
T1 - `Make in India’ or Miss the Moment
AU - Bharti, Nitin
AU - Yang, Li
PY - 2025/8/2
Y1 - 2025/8/2
N2 - Despite a decade of “Make in India,” the country’s manufacturing ambitions remain hamstrung by a fundamental constraint of skills deficit rooted in weak education policies. Drawing on systematic historical comparisons with China, this article argues that India’s industrial lag stems not from infrastructure gaps alone but from underinvestment in foundational, vocational, and engineering education, jeopardising its future in global high-tech manufacturing.
AB - Despite a decade of “Make in India,” the country’s manufacturing ambitions remain hamstrung by a fundamental constraint of skills deficit rooted in weak education policies. Drawing on systematic historical comparisons with China, this article argues that India’s industrial lag stems not from infrastructure gaps alone but from underinvestment in foundational, vocational, and engineering education, jeopardising its future in global high-tech manufacturing.
UR - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v1goiyjh5eg33af58i7ri/EPW_Nitin-Kumar-Bharti-Li-Yang.pdf?rlkey=ukwt8jm161yyxwiqe92s7nv1f&e=1&dl=0
U2 - 10.71279/epw.v60i31.45337
DO - 10.71279/epw.v60i31.45337
M3 - Article in specialist publication
SN - 0012-9976
VL - 60
SP - 13
EP - 17
JO - Economic and Political Weekly
JF - Economic and Political Weekly
ER -
