what is the economic importance of Gwalior?
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Probably none but try this site\n\nhttp://gwalior.nic.in/
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goa thrives on tourism.\nso, frm ur options, seems like we hav a winner in .... boutique 4 indian garments \n\nthough make it frm north-east ...as far as possible frm goa...delhi clothes r too routine for the casual indian tourist
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I don't he is as important as Dr Abdul P.J Kalam, one is a entertainer and the other is a scientist and president ofthe country. SRK could be more important than singh WHO is only Sonia's puppet like Gyani Zail Singh was indiras puppet.
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yes they are part of india and they are given their due importance it is upto the state govt how much they give back to the people of their state
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Infrastructure, Electricity, Lifestyle, \n\nI won't say cheap, because cheap/money limit depnds on the market factor, inflation, lifestyle, etc..\n\nSalary of 30,000 in Bangalore is equal to 15-16,000 in Ahmedabad (again market rates)\n\nThanks,\n\nVishwas
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SSI Sector in India creates largest employment opportunities for the Indian populace, next only to Agriculture. It has been estimated that a lakh rupees of investment in fixed assets in the small scale sector generates employment for four persons.\n\nSSI Sector in India creates largest employment opportunities for the Indian populace, next only to Agriculture. It has been estimated that a lakh rupees of investment in fixed assets in the small scale sector generates employment for four persons.
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Globalization has been treating India very well.  It is well respected by the world and has been getting many internation companies to establish offices and operations in India.
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Its a cave shrine near Chandanwari, near Pahalgam on the way to Amarnath Yatra.\nThe article in the Tribune throws some light on the fact.
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Agriculture\n\nAbout two-thirds of all Indians derive their livelihood directly from agriculture, a proportion that is not much smaller than it was at the beginning of the 20th century. The area cultivated, however, has risen steadily and is now considerablymore than half of the nation's total area, a proportion matchedby few countries in the world. Inthe more fertile regions, such as the Indo-Gangetic Plain or the deltas of the eastern coast, the proportion of cultivated to total land often exceeds 90 percent.\n\n\nAlthough the average farm size is only about five acres (two hectares) and is declining, that figure masks the markedly skewed distribution of landholdings. More than half of all farms are less than three acres in size, while much of the remainder is controlled by a small number of relatively affluent peasants and landlords. Most cultivators own farms that provide little more than a bare subsistence for their families. Further, nearly one-third of all agricultural households own no land at all and, along with many submarginal landowners, must work for the larger landholders or must supplement their earnings from some subsidiary occupation, often the one traditionally associated with their caste.\n\nAgricultural technology has been undergoing rapid change inIndia. Government-sponsored, large-scale canal irrigation projects, begun by the British in the mid-19th century, were greatly extended after independence, but there has been a shift in emphasis toward deep wells (called tube wells in India), often privately owned, from which water is raised either by electric or diesel pumps. Important in several parts of India, especially the southeast, is “tank” irrigation, in which water is drawn from small reservoirs created along the coursesof minor streams.\n\nThe demand for chemical fertilizers also has been steadily increasing, although since the late 1960s the introduction of new hybrid, high-yielding varieties of seeds (HYVs), mainly for wheat and secondarily for  rice, has brought about the most dramatic increases in production, especially in Punjab (where their adoption is virtually universal), Haryāna, western Uttar Pradesh, and Gujarāt. So great has been the success of the so-called Green Revolution that India was able to build up buffer  grain stocks sufficient for the country to weather several years of disastrously bad monsoons with virtually no imports or starvation and even managed to become, in some years, a modest net food exporter. During the same period, the production of coarse grains and pulses, which were less in demand than rice and wheat, either did not increase significantly or decreased. Hence, the total per capita grain production has been notably less than that suggested by many protagonists of the Green Revolution, and the threat of major food scarcity has not been eliminated.\n\nMost Indian farms grow little besides food crops, especially cereal grains, and these account for more than three-fifths of the area under cultivation. Foremost among the grains, in terms of both area sown and total yield, is rice, the crop of choice in almost all areas with more than 40 inches (1,000 millimetres) of average annual precipitation, as well as in someirrigated areas. Wheat ranks second in both area sown and total yield, and, because of the use of HYVs, leads all grains in yield per acre. Wheat is grown mainly on the fertile soils of northern and northwestern India in areas with 15 to 40 inchesof average annual precipitation, often with supplementary irrigation. Unlike rice, which is mainly grown during the kharif (summer) season, wheat is primarily a rabi (cool-season) crop. Other important cereals, in descending order of sown acreage, are sorghum (called jowar in India), pearl millet (or bajra), corn (maize), and finger millet (or ragi). All of these typically are grown on relatively infertile soils unsuitable for rice or wheat, while corn cultivation is also favoured in hilly and mountainous reg
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Services Sector\n\nServices the 'tertiary sector' of the economy covers a wide gamut of activities like trading, banking & finance, infotainment, real estate, transportation, security, management & technical consultancy among several others. The contribution from services sector today stands over 40 per cent of the total GDP in India. The sector currently employs close to 20 million people in India. The TIFAC study on Services covered nine select sub-sectors ranging from advertising, HRD services, testing & certification to Government administration.\n\nFor all the aforesaid areas IT plays the prime role in information processing, storage & access with a view to providing improved services to the consumers. Some of the typical IT applications in major services sector are outlined in the following sections.\n\nfor more information\nhttp://www.census.gov/svsd/www/economic.html
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GDP is the total value of goods and services produced by a nation.
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*Bangladesh\nRiver : Ganges ( They call it hogli ), Bhramaputra \nMajor Occupation : Agriculture & Fishing\n*Bhutan\nMajor Occupation: Agriculture\n\n*India\nRiver : Ganges\nTourist Destination : Taj Mahal (Agara, Delhi)\nPort & city : Mumbai (Bambay)\nMajor Ocupation : Agriculture, IT is Hot among genX\nPrime Minister : Shri Manmohan Singh\n\n\n*Nepal\nPort & city : Khatmandu is a capital and Nepal being Landlocked doesn't have a port\nTourist Destination : Khatmandu\nMajor Occupation : Agriculture\nKing : Gyanendra Shah, right now its controversial\n\n*Pakistan\nRiver: Indus\nPort & city : Karachi\nMajor occupation : Agriculture\nPresident: Gen. Parvez Musharraf
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Presumably for the same reason it's important in any other place: Agriculture has a dual role in both personal sustenance as well as the industry of food growth/production.
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Software industry is like turbo for the economic engine of the country. Its almost like an after burner in a rocket. It gives an impetus to the growth levels. The reason India's growth rate is going to touch double digit is because of the solid and growing Software industry.
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India has struggled financially since independence, experiencing slow economic growth and economic setbacks due to climatic extremes or political disturbances. The country has been gradually transforming its economic base from agrarian to industrial and commercial. Under British rule in the 19th century, India's cottage industries and thriving trade were virtually destroyed to make way for European manufactured goods, paid for by exports of agricultural products such as cotton, opium, and tea. Beginning in the late 19th century a modern industrial sector and an extensive infrastructure of railways and irrigation works were slowly built with British and Indian capital. Nevertheless, India’s economy stagnated during the last 30 or so years of British rule. At independence in 1947 India was desperately poor, with an aging textile industry as its only major industrial sector.\n\n\n  \n\nEconomic policy after independence emphasized central planning, with the government setting goals for and closely regulating private industry. Self-sufficiency was promoted in order to foster domestic industry and reduce dependence on foreign trade. These efforts produced steady economic growth in the 1950s, but less positive results in the two succeeding decades. By the early 1970s India had achieved its goal of self-sufficiency in food production, although this food was not equally available to all Indians due to skewed distribution and occasional shortfalls in the harvest. \n\nIn the late 1970s the government began to reduce state control of the economy, making slow progress toward this goal. By 1991, however, the government still regulated or ran many industries, including mining and quarrying, banking and insurance, transportation and communications, and manufacturing and construction. Economic growth improved during this period, at least partially as a result of development projects funded by foreign loans.\n\nA financial crisis in 1991 stimulated India to institute major economic reforms. After the Persian Gulf conflict of 1990-1991 caused a sharp rise in oil prices, India faced a serious balance of payments problem (its foreign expenditures exceeded its foreign income). To obtain emergency loans from international economic organizations, India agreed to adopt reforms aimed at liberalizing its economy. These economic reforms removed many government regulations on investment, including foreign investment, and eliminated a quota and tariff system that had kept trade at a low level. Also, reform deregulated many industries and privatized many public enterprises. These reforms continued through the mid-1990s, although at a slower rate because of political changes in India’s government. In 1993 India permitted Indian-owned private banks to be established along with a minority of foreign banks.\n\nWith the reforms, India made a dramatic shift from an economy relatively closed to the global economy to one that is relatively open. By 1996-1997, foreign investment had increased to nearly $6 billion, up from $165 million in 1990-1991. Exports and imports also grew dramatically in this same period. Economic growth since the 1980s has brought with it an expansion of the middle class, which was estimated to form 20 to 25 percent of India's population in the mid-1990s. As a result, the demand for consumer goods from soap to luxury cars has expanded rapidly.\n\nIn 1997 India’s annual gross domestic product (GDP) was $382 billion. In 1997 agriculture, forestry, and fishing made up 25 percent of GDP, compared with 30 percent for industry (including manufacturing, mining, and construction) and 45 percent for services. \n\nA Labor  The Indian economy employs 423 million people. The majority of this workforce—64 percent—labors in the agricultural sector. Of the remainder, 20 percent work in services and 16 percent in industry. Women make up 32 percent of the total labor force.\n\nSignificant numbers of children are employed in India. They not
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To manage, deal with, or be responsible for currency.\n\n:)
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Poooor???????????????\nFew facts about India to open your eyes:\nIndia was the richest country on Earth until the time of the British in the early 17th Century\nIt has been estimated that the total amount of treasure that the British looted from India had already reached £1,000,000,000 (£1Billion) by 1901.\n  Taking into consideration interest rates and inflation this would be worth close to $1,000,000,000,000 ($1Trillion) in real-terms today.\nIndia's GDP will reach $ 1 trillion by 2011, \n$ 2 trillion by 2020, \n$ 3 trillion by 2025, \n$ 6 trillion by 2032, \n$ 10 trillion by 2038, and \n$ 27 trillion by 2050, \nbecoming the 3rd largest economy after USA and China. \nIn terms of GDP, India will overtake Italy by the year 2016, France by 2019, UK by 2022, \nGermany by 2023, and Japan by 2032.\nProgress during the last 20 years\nPoverty (incidence)\n1980s-44%1990s-  36%2000-   26%\n\nEducation (literacy rate)\n1980s-44%1990s-52%2000-  65%\n\nHealth (life expectancy)\n1980s-561990s-602000- 69\n\nIndia is set to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2050.\nIndia’s population is expected to grow from 1.08bn to 1.63bn people, overtaking China, which is forecast to reach 1.44bn from 1.3bn currently. \nIndia, will also have the highest working population in the World — 700 million people out of 1.1 billion people are young; the young population will continue till 2050. \n§§World-renowned TQM expert Yasutoshi Washio predicts that Indian manufacturing quality will overtake that of Japan in 2013.\n§§McKinsey believes India's revenues from the IT                                     industry will reach $87 Billion by 2008.\n§§Flextronics, the $14 billion                            global major in Electronic Manufacturing Services, has announced that it will make India a global competence centre for telecom software development.\n§Tata Motors paid $ 118 million to buy Daewoo commercial vehicle Company of Korea. \n§§Ranbaxy, the largest Indian pharmaceutical company, gets 70% of its $1 billion revenue from overseas operations and 40% from USA.  \n§§Tata Tea has bought Tetley of UK for £260M. \n§§India is one of the world's largest diamond cutting and polishing centres, its exports were worth $6 Billion in 1999.§About 9 out of 10 diamond stones sold anywhere in the world, pass through India.\n§§Garment exports are expected to increase from the current level of $6 billion to  $25 billion by 2010.\n§§The country's foreign exchange reserves stand at an all-time high of $120 Billion.\n\n§§Mobile phones are growing by about 1.5Million a month. Long distance rates are down by two-thirds in five years and by 80% for data transmission.\n§§Wal-Mart sources $1 Billion worth of goods from India - half its apparel.  Wal-Mart expects this to increase to $10 Billion in the next couple of years.§§GAP sources about $600 million and Hilfiger $100 million worth of apparel from India.\n§India is among six countries that launch satellites and do so even for Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Singapore and EU countries.\n§§India's INSAT is among the world's largest                                                    domestic satellite communication systems.\n§§India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) was indigenously manufactured with most of the components like motor cases, inter-stages, heat shield, cryogenic engine, electronic modules all manufactured by public and private Indian industry.\n§§Kalpana Chawla was one of the seven astronauts in the Columbia space shuttle                          when it disintegrated over Texas skies just 16 minutesbefore its scheduled landing on Feb 1st 2003, she was the second Indian in space.\n§Back in 1968, India imported 9M tonnes of food-grains to support its people, through a grand programme of national self-sufficiency which started in 1971, today, it now has a food grain surplus stock of 60M.§India is among the 3 countries in