India is among the world's youngest nations with a median age of 25 years India has the second largest area of arable land in the world, making it one of the world's largest food producers - over 200 million tonnes of foodgrains are produced annually. With the largest number of listed companies - 10,000 across 23 stock exchanges,
India's healthy banking system with a
network of 70,000 branches is among the largest in the world According to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), India's consumer market will be the world's fifth largest (from twelfth) in the world by 2025 India's middle class will swell by over ten times from its current size of 50 million to 583 million people by 2025 The number of companies incorporated has increased at an annual average of 55,000 companies in the last two years
Industry
India is the world’s second largest
producer of cement after China with industry capacity of over 200 million tonnes (MT) Total installed capacity was 204.29 MT as on August 31, 2008 Total despatches has been 100.17 MT during April–October 2008–09 100.96 MT during April–October 2008–09.
India’s cement consumption
grew 9.6% yoy. South market witnessed strong demand supporting firm pricing (up 4.7% yoy) in the region. The key concern dip in construction and infrastructure activities in the country.
Rebound in consumption growth;
Central and South region outperform. India 9.6 South16.3 West 9.8 Central 14.3 North3.7 East 2.1 Contradictory pricing trend emerge; realizations remained robust in South Capacity utilization improves MoM but remains lower yoy Key performers were players who have recently added capacities Coal prices cool from peak; freight index fell to the lowest levels since 2002.
Consumption Growth &
Capacity Addition Consumption in Million Tonnes and Capacity addition in Million Tonnes p a Region Consumption Capacity Sep 08 Sep 07 Aug 08 Addition South 4.43 3.8 4.49 27.6 North 2.85 2.75 2.41 15.0 West 2.4 2.35 2.4 11.3 East 1.91 1.74 1.86 7.5