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Webbipalveluja ja infokioskeja Intian maaseudulle

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• E-kiosks for services like bill payment and job queries are mushrooming all over rural India.
• Common service centre scheme under the National e-Governance Programme of the Union Ministry for Communications and IT reaches has target of 600,000 centres.
• The ministry is in partnership with states as well as private companies who respond to invitations to bid.
• About 13 companies, including biggies like Reliance Infocom and Wipro, have opened shop under the programme in 20 states after winning bids.
• Each CSC is run by a village-level-entrepreneur (VLE), thereby creating employment for as many villagers as more CSCs are set up.
• The CSCs are usually 150 sq ft rooms and are open from 10 am till 6 pm.

Intian 10 nopeimmin kasvavaa kaupunkia (talouskasvu)

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1. Surat 11,5 %
2. Bangalore 10,3 %
3. Ahmedabad 10,1 %
4. Mumbai 8,5 %
5. New Delhi 8,4 %
6. Hyderabad 7,8 %
7. Pune 7,4 %
8. Bardhaman 6,6 %
9. Kolkata 6,3 %
10. Chennai 6,2 %

Onko Intian outsourcingin loppu jo tulossa?

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Intia lisää tiede-investointeja

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• India's new science budget, announced last week (29 February) includes a 16 per cent increase in science spending.
• Just over US$6 billion (around 242 billion Indian Rupees), compared with last year's budget of around US$5 billion.
• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) received the largest chunk of this year's funds, getting around US$1 billion.

Fiksuin tuntematon intialainen yrittäjä

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• You have never heard of Sridhar Vembu, founder and CEO of AdventNet, the company behind newly launched productivity suite Zoho.
• A 100%, bootstrapped, $40-million-a-year revenue business that sends $1 million to the bank every month in profits.
• Zoho does everything that you would do with Microsoft Office. It also has a hosted customer relationship management service that is free for very small companies and only costs $10 per user per month for larger ones. It competes with Salesforce.com, which charges $65 per user per month.
• What the Chinese have done in manufacturing, he is showing that the Indians can do in software: undercut U.S. and European software makers dramatically. Not in information technology services. Not by body shopping. Vembu has done something few Indian entrepreneurs have been able to achieve--build a true "product" company out of India. This is not a head count-based business model.

Kuinka rakentaa 30 uutta Bangalorea?

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• In the 25-year period (2001-26) India will be adding 220 million to its urban population, taking it up by 77 per cent.
• Will have to add around 14 Delhis or 18 Mumbais or 30 Bangalores!
• "He has another idea. Instead of growing a city concentrically around its periphery, develop new towns in largely un-built-up areas with a fast rail or road link that can easily go up to 200 km."... Several such new towns can come up along a single link. Builders say such a town can be entirely self-financing in terms of its infrastructure so long as it has a critical mass, stretch over 5,000 acres or more in mixed development and accommodate half a million people upwards. The best new developments in the country, Greater Noida and New Town near Kolkata, meet these criteria.
• To have land use plans for areas where a city will grow in the future or to plan new cities (India needs 200 new one million population cities in 20 years) you need state government and politicians who are willing and able.