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by alephnerd·3y ago·view on hn ↗
The bigger issue is unevenness in the creation of manufacturing clusters. For example, most of those packaged medicines in the export graph are primarily manufactured in the Chandigarh/Himachal/Haryana/Punjab cluster and the Telangana/Maharasthra cluster.

Northern (Delhi/Haryana/Punjab/Himachal/Uttrakhand/Jammu Kashmir), Western (Gujarat, Maharasthra, Goa), and Southern (Telangana/Kerala/Karnataka/Tamil Nadu/Andhra Pradesh - though Andhra is a laggard as well) India are extremely industrialized and have HDIs and incomes comparable to mid-tier states in Mexico and China. The issue is deindustrialization in central India (UP/Bihar/Madhya/Jharkhand/Chhatisgarh) and Eastern India (West Bengal/Assam) due to lack of skilled labor, governance issues, and high costs.

India is a federal country and the onus of creating a regulatory and legislative environment conducive for businesses falls onto local government (cities, panchayats, district collectors) and state government (CMs, state legislatures, state civil service). Otherwise, "Make In India" will continue to chug along but only to continue to enrich and further develop the half of India that's already well governed, while leaving central and eastern India chronically underdeveloped. Also, the pandemic definetly did not help and set back development severely.