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With drugs going off patent over the next three years valued at around a whopping Rs 3,20,000 crore (US$ 80 billion) and also increased penetration of generics in the global market, Indian pharmaceutical industry sees a great opportunity and various stakeholders are gearing up to obtain a share in the pie that appears to be lucrative.

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The upcoming Commonwealth Games in India present a good opportunity for Indians to show their ability of managing big events. It is true that it is not the biggest World sport event but it offers a good launch pad for staking a claim for bigger events like Olympics. This event is going to be a big gala show as the most expensive infrastructure has been developed to stage it. The initial allotted fund for this event was 15000 crore from the Planning Commission of India.  Additionally Rs 1600 crore were allotted for management of day to day activities. This figure was expected to be Rs. 200 crore at first but gradually rose to 1600 and is now expected to reach 2000 crore.

So far so good, but the real deal is how well the infrastructure has been developed and is the progress on satisfactory. The authorities who are devoting their time and money into it are Delhi Development Authority, Sports Authority of India, Government of NCT of Delhi and University of Delhi. They were determined to develop the venues for staging the games so that they can hold their own with the world-class sports complexes of the world and they seem to have achieved that. The 12 venues for holding the 17 disciplines of the Commonwealth Games have come up great as authorities like MCD and NDMC have given their best for it.

Very good preparations have been made to live up to the very hospitable country image of India. The athletes will be provided free accommodation, free trip to the Taj Mahal, health and first aid facilities, magnificent Games Village, transportation, security, entertainment backed by the finance discussed above. 71 countries are going to participate in this mega-event and their athletes and participants will converge in Delhi this October. Delhi, being the capital of India gives world class services and many advantages not available in other cities of India. The participants can get a chance to explore this historically rich and technologically up dated city if they feel like travelling around.

This mega sports gives India a chance to show itself in all her aspects. Not only is it a chance to show that the country is a sports loving hospitable country but also that the professionals and engineers that we possess are at par if not better than anywhere in the world.

India being a peninsular country has a far-stretching coastline. It is surrounded by water on the east, west, and south coasts. As a result there is abundant fishing in India. The fisheries industry in India is huge. With its vast coastline, India is the fourth-largest producer of fish in the world. This is mainly because nearly 10 million people residing in more than 4,000 coastal regions are engaged in fishery activity. These people are mainly dependent on fisheries to earn a living.

India holds great potential for both inland and marine fishing. It has huge reservoirs for fishing. The fisheries industry heavily contributes to the Gross Domestic Product of India. The fisheries industry is responsible for filling the Indian exchequer with about $70 million per annum. Massive production and export has made the fisheries sector an essential part of the Indian economy.

Though the fishing industry in India contributes heavily to the GDP and is a valuable source of earning foreign currency for the country, it still has a huge potential for export. Out of the total area available for fisheries, a significant amount of area is left unutilized.

In the recent past, the fisheries industry has been growing considerably on a consistent basis. It has also caught the attention of foreign investors. Several foreign investors are now investing in the fisheries industry in India for its potential to offer them immense returns. Another reason for the foreign investors to invest in the industry is the easy availability of infrastructure facilities. The liberalized policy of the government is another vital factor for the fisheries industry to attract new foreign investments in India.

Both the central government of India and the state governments have undertaken initiatives and announced several policies to boost the growth of the fisheries industry in India.

The Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Fisheries is the main authoritative body for development of the fisheries industry in India. This government body has been responsible for implementing infrastructure development programs and welfare-oriented schemes. It is also responsible for formulating appropriate programs to increase the productivity in the fisheries sector. Furthermore, the Ministry of Food Processing Industries is another agency that is responsible for the overall growth of the fisheries industry.

Though the central ministry takes active initiatives to boost the fisheries industry, it is mainly governed by the state governments. Each state has its own set of policies to attract new investments in the fisheries industry of the state.

Some of the most prominent states and union territories that promise huge potentials for investments include:

Goa:The state has a coastline of about 100 km and is rich in marine wealth. Fisheries are the main economic activity of the state. The fishing activity has given a big boost to the canning, freezing, and fish processing industries in the state. These industries offer great investment opportunities.

Kerala: The government of Kerala gives top priority to the fisheries sector. The sector contributes the most to the state government’s revenue and brings in foreign exchange. The government is keen to develop this industry further. There are huge investment opportunities for investors in terms of providing technological assistance to the local fishermen, providing storage facilities, fish packaging, and so on.

Apart from these two states, prominent other states and union territories, such as Assam, Orissa, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Lakshadweep also promise great investment opportunities in the fisheries industry.

The Indian IT Sector: The evolutionary path and the US$50 billion domestic opportunity

The Indian IT sector has traversed a long path from an age of stringent and inefficient regulatory control to two decades of favourable policy. An often overlooked aspect of the Indian IT sector is the domestic market, which Ovum believes, is poised for significant growth, propelled by massive e-governance projects and the private sector which is rapidly acquiring scale. ( http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=134298&rt=The-Indian-IT-Sector-The-evolutionary-path-and-the-US-50-billion-domestic-opportunity.html )

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* Assesses the domestic IT services market with a focus on public sector projects
* Presents Ovum’’s outlook on the domestic market and opportunities for packaged software providers

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Policy, in the form of tax incentives and infrastructure build up, forms a key pillar of the Indian IT success story. The industry now plays an important role in the Indian economy and has acquired sufficient clout to ensure that government policy continues to remain conducive to ensuring talent supply and a favourable tax regime.

The Indian government has budgeted for and is currently implementing e-governance projects on a massive scale. Public-private-partnerships is the dominant model of project execution and Ovum believes that while challenges exist, the success rate of public sector projects would be higher than in the years past.

The public sector, together with sectors such as telecommunications and financial services, will propel the domestic IT sector to US$24 billion in revenues by 2013. Ovum agrees with the industry body, NASSCOM’’s projection of US$50 billion in domestic IT services revenues, with a few caveats.

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It may be noted that in the last two years many a new airlines have come to the fore in a huge way and many huge industries have declared their wishes to enter into this industry. Another major leap was the open sky policy of Government of India permitting the existing private airlines in India to fly to foreign destinations. It does require a special mention that with such expansions planned by major aviation companies and new companies formed there is a vast manpower requirement. Qualified manpower is in huge abundance in India but they need a proper direction to capitalise on this surge in industry. When the human resources needed by these companies were less in number, it was easy to tap from a huge HR bank but when the demand for such HR increased they are finding it extremely difficult to maintain the quality of HR selected for these jobs especially when more and more foreign airlines are flying into India offering high salary packages forcing the better of HR to go with these companies.

It is important to mention here that Indian aviation industry grew by 20% second only to BPO industry in services sector and then comes the concept of no frills airline the market for which is growing vastly. Many no frills airline have already announced their plans to start services to India a few of them are Nok Air, Air Asia-Thailand, Air Arabia etc.

The boom in the aviation sector in India can be gauged by the fact that in one year, the number of people seeking pilot licenses and airhostess training has multiplied three times. In April 2005, it was 300. In April 2006, the number rose to 1045. The civil aviation industry is booming. Indian airlines placed orders for over 400 aircraft worth a whopping $30 billion for its operational requirements. That shows a requirement of 5600 pilots, 19000 airhostess or cabin crew, 24000 technicians, 36000 ground handling crew and various other related vacancies.

And these aviation industry vacancies are all fresh vacancies without including vacancies that may come up in the existing aircrafts.

Also the pay packages offered by the various Indian airlines have also seen an upward trend due to very few number of trained pilots and cabin crew availability. Hence there is an opportunity for you.

Indian Aviation is witnessing a mushrooming of new airlines especially low cost carriers. Besides the existing Air Deccan, newly launched Spicejet and value airline Kingfisher Airlines, there are Indus Airways, Air One, East West Airlines, Go Airways, Magic Air and Crystal Air who are getting ready to fly Indian sky soon. India is to see the launch of at least 14 such airlines. Low cost start-up carrier IndiGo had stunned the aviation industry by placing orders for 100 aircraft at a list price of over $6 billion last year.

It is anyone’s guess as to Human Resource Requirements, especially pilots, airhosess, flight attendants and other cabin crew, that are going to come up in the Aviation Sector. Demand is much above the number of people acquiring training for the same. Jet Airways along with Sahara India has about 47 percent share of the domestic aviation market, followed by Indian Airlines (28 per cent), Air Deccan (11 per cent), Kingfisher (6 per cent) and SpiceJet (5 per cent) as on October2006.

Jet Airways tops the list of domestic and national carrier operators with 8,168 flights operating till June 2005. Indian Airlines ranks second with 7,562 flights, followed by Sahara (3,225 flights), Air Deccan (2,889 flights), Spice Jet (483 flights) and Kingfisher Airlines (267 flights).

The sudden boom in Indian aviation has caught even the normally market savvy global aerospace manufacturers unawares. Recently, both Boeing and Airbus said they had underestimated Indian growth. This means global players are also coming into the scene.     

It wasn’t surprising since statistics compiled by Airbus Industrie showed that Indian carriers accounted for 327 out of the 2,140 firm orders for new aircraft that were placed with it and rival Boeing in 2005. This does not take into account the orders placed for smaller airplanes with other manufacturers like ATR and Dassault – which, too, are flooded with offers from private Indian carriers.

The Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, Embraer, is bullish on the prospects in the Indian market. Their forecast is that between 2006 and 2010, the demand for 30-120-seater planes in India would be around 165, which is about 40 per cent of the demand of the Asia-Pacific region. The value of these aircraft would be around $4 billion. They feel that a majority of the aircraft required will be in the 61-120-seat capacity segment. 70 per cent of these would be required for market growth while there would be a small demand for replacement.

Globalysis Ltd.forecasts growth in India’s aviation market, to be one of the fastest growing in the world, for the years 2007-2008. The Globalysis research report forecasts growth in India’s aviation market of approximately 28% in 2007 and 24% in 2008, for a total of approximately 52 million passengers being carried in 2008.

From the above given facts this is the right time to invest in a business opportunity and anyone with cash and liquidity can go in for the kill.