India is becoming more competitive and ranking better than Brazil, Russian Federation, China and the neighboring countries. The World Economic Forum has released the Global Competitiveness Report 2006-2007 based on nine factors.

Here is the list of competitive countries based on global competitiveness index (GCI)-

# Switzerland- 1 (out of 125 countries)
#Sweden- 3
#United States- 6
#India- 43
#China- 54
#Russia Federation- 62
#Brazil- 66
#Sri Lanka- 79
#Pakistan- 91
#Bangladesh- 99
#Nepal- 110
#Angola- 121
#Burundi- 122
#Chad- 123
#Timor-Leste- 124
#Mozambique- 125

India is at good place in Innovation factor (26) and in Business Sophistication category (25). However, in the Basic Requirements category, India is ranked at 60. However, China is at 44th place and the US is at 27th place.

Here is the list of factors responsible for driving productivity and competitiveness.
It describes India’s performance on different categories on which the final list has been come out-

#Market Efficiency- 21

#Business Sophistication category- 25

#Innovation factor- 26

#Institutions Factors- 34

#Efficiency Enhancers- 41

#Higher Education and Training- 49

#Technological Readiness- 55

#Infrastructure category- 60

#Macroeconomy- 88

#Health and Primary Education- 93

The India’s poor show at Health and Primary Education category does give a signal that none is good in the future. The government should concentrate more in this area and on the infrastructure development too.

Market is booming but what about the poor Indian residing in lakhs of villages? Where are the schools, hospitals, colleges, roads, bridges, electricity, drinking water, health-care facilities in those villages? Farmers are committing suicide continuously, is India really developing.

Did anybody see these facilities in good working condition in their villages from where they have come to big cities?

The real India lives in the villages and government should take care of Real India to develop INDIA.

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