I will say rather South India is relatively performing better recently due to its large pool of technical and higher educated skilled human resource and its nothing to do with its retention of historical Indian civilization. Investment in private engineering colleges and higher studies started in South India roughly three decades ago and it is paying back now. This time was quite earlier than many other states in India invested in this area. The only non-south Indian state which started investing in private engineering college and higher studies at point of time was Maharastra and which is equally competitive with other South Indian states. In commerce and business Maharastra is still ahead of all South Indian states and three of its cities like Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, and Pune are equally competitive with Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai for IT and biotech industries. So, correlation between investment in human resource (in higher education, engineering, management and science by generating higher number of skilled man power at low wages) and recent success story of South India would hold better both logically and practically. This is evident from the case of Malaysia and Philippine.
RE:Ignore Scientific Justification (Part 2)
by Digambara on Dec 03, 2006 02:42 PM Permalink
Hi Ramesh, Thanks for your compliment. Surely, Pune does not equal to the level of Banaglore, Chennai or Hyderabad, but is considered next to it. Pune still offers a higher oppertunity for IT, BT and auto industries than many other cities in India, one can find it with the govt statistics and investment proposals in last one decade. Mumbai is still the leader and much ahead of Chennai, Hyderabad and even Bangalore when is comes to commerce other than IT and BT based industries. IT/ITES based industries in Hyderabad is eight fold smaller than that of Bangalore. So for comparison sake, when one levels Bangalore (IT export @ ~85000 crore) with Hyderbad (IT export @ ~10000 crore), Pune (IT export @ ~9000 crore)is defintely in edge with Hyderabad though someone may not like it as a city. In BT and Auto industries also the figure would be similar or may be a larger figure for Pune in auto industries.
RE:Ignore Scientific Justification (Part 2)
by ramesh on Nov 23, 2006 10:26 PM Permalink
You seemed to be a learned man and i respect your views.
however your claim that navi mumbai and pune are competitive with places like bangalore and chennai is hyperbole.I have worked in Pune and pretty much know the scene in the city.I really can't see how.
