Automation
in factories over the past few years may not impact builders in Gurgaon as much
as automation will impact manufacturing in assembly lines. It is anticipated
that within five years the construction sector in India shall become the third
largest in the world, overtaking Japan’s sector to become a one trillion-dollar
industry within a three trillion dollar economy. While automation with the use
of robots may be gradually creeping up on us, it would be extremely difficult
to automate the construction of buildings with the use of robots. flats
in Gurgaon shall likely be built employing the same techniques that have
been used over the past ten or twenty years. There may be improvements in individual
functions as well as in tasks carried out by construction workers; however, the use of robots to erect buildings
is certainly many years if not decades in the future.
The need to
invest in a well-trained and able workforce is crucial to provide employment to
millions of unemployed who are disillusioned by the promises which have been
made to them in the past. China truly became a player on the world stage thirty
years ago and became a truly global economic power more recently. All progress
in China was due to a well-trained workforce and a relatively simple export model
which has enabled it to manufacture products more cheaply than any other
country since. While in India there is a certain fatalism which makes many of
India’s best minds doubt whether such a growth model could ever be put in place
in India allowing India to do what China has done over the past thirty years.
An unwillingness to truly believe that India could be the workshop of the world
is perhaps the greatest hurdle preventing India from becoming the workshop of
the world. Certainly, those who live in
some of the best luxury apartments in
Gurgaon have dozens of gadgets which have been manufactured in China, yet
almost none of these individuals would venture forth to create their own
production line to produce high-quality
goods for export from India. Many well educated and brilliant Indians who own property
in Gurgaon miss the writing on the wall, namely, that nearly all the products
in their plush homes have been made in china, in doing so they miss a great
opportunity.
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