India

• Bangalore- World’s Largest Outsourcing city 

  India accounts for 50% of the global business outsourcing market 
• Call centre workers- good middle class wages (Indian standards)- dubbed Indian ‘techno-elite’ earning 3500 rupees (£40)

  Founded in 1981- Infosys had revenues of US$ 9 billion in 2015
• Mumbai 

  -Largest  city in India + 10th largest city worldwide 

  • Home to clusters of key industries: finance, nuclear power, music, film;textiles 
  • Headquarters of Central Railway and the Western Railway 
• • Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International airport (Mumbai)
  • main aviation hub for the city 
  • Second busiest in India for passenger traffic 
  • Being increased to handle 40 million passengers annually
  • New international airport being built 
• • Jawaharlal Nehru Port (Mumbai)
  • Handles 55-60% of India’s containerised cargo 
  • Hub port for the city, India and Arabian Sea 
• • Dharavi Slum (Mumbai)
  • Thriving recycling industry worth £700 million a year
  • Employs 250,000 people 
• • Poverty 
  • 60% of India's nearly 1.3 billion people live on less than $3.10 a day- the World Bank's median poverty line. 
  • 21%, or more than 250 million people, survive on less than $2 a day.
• • Unemployment 
  • December 2022, Haryana- highest unemployment rate in India, at 37.4%
• Poor public health
• Poor civic and educational standards for large part of the population 
• • Overcrowding
  • Shortages of land
• • Cramped, relatively expensive housing 
  • 95m2 of accommodation- US$250,000- 90x GDP per capita 
  • 60%- Live in slums- only 20% in Delhi and Rio de Janeiro
  • Rest live in dilapidated, rent-controlled houses or flats for public sector employees 
• • Gap between rich and poor is increasing widely
  • More billionaires than UK
  • More people in absolute poverty than all of Africa
  • 2015- ½ billion Indians lived in homes without a toilet 
• • Dharavi Slum
  • Families live on £200 a month 
  • Little access to clean water or sanitation