India has the potential to become a superpower due to several factors: 1) It has the third largest education system and is continuing to improve literacy rates. 2) Over half the population is under 25, making India the youngest country. 3) A growing middle class of over 500 million people will drive domestic economic growth. 4) Several sectors like IT, manufacturing, and infrastructure are growing rapidly due to reforms and investment.

1. INDIA
The Next Super-
Power

2. Introduction
Education
India the youngest country
The Indian Middle Class
Entrepreneur Paradise
Defense
Infrastructure
Economic growth of India
IT Sector
Growth in Manufacturing
sector
Conclusion

3. A country that has the capacity to project
dominating power and influence anywhere in
the world, generally characterized by strong
growth rate, defense power and foreign
influence and so may plausibly attain the
status of global hegemony.

4. Third largest education system in the World (after
China and USA).
 754 universities and 35539colleges.
 Small elite sector of IITs, IIMs and IIITs.
 47Central universities, 347 State universities,123
Deemed University,237Private university.
Most of the good schools in India have a annual fee
between 40000-100000 per annum. Which is cheaper of
what you see in developed countries.
Most private and foreign universities and colleges
focus on business studies, engineering and IT.

5. YEAR %age of literacy in India
1981 43.57
1991 52.21
2001 64.83
2011 74.40
Literacy Rate of India

6. INDIA IS THE YOUNGEST
COUNTRY
As per the demographic reports, 55% of Indian
population is below the age of 25 years. What more
you want to prove that India is the youngest country in
the world. These young Indians are approaching their
earning years. They are ambitious, upward mobile,
tech-savvy and innovative.

7. The Indian Middle Class
 According to a McKinsey study (MGI) (The Rising
Classes' January 2008), 431 million fewer Indians live
in extreme poverty today than 1985 level.
 In 2005, private spending reached about 17 trillion
rupees, (like Japan and the US and greater than China
and other fast-growing emerging markets in Asia.)
 The median family income in India is approximately
Rs.4500 a month. By its conventional definition, the
middle class includes families whose incomes lie
between 75% and 125% of the median.
 By 2007, Middle class : 50 million people (5 percent
of the population).
 By 2025, middle class : 583 million (41 percent of the
population)

8. Entrepreneur’s Paradise
The youths of India are more prone to start something
of their own. The entrepreneurial spirit amongst them,
even while they are in college, is unbelievably high.
Start ups from the colleges are a quite common
nowadays; thanks to the information age.
Entrepreneurial opportunities are there in all
sectors. Direct Selling or Network Marketing is
another area, which provides immense business
opportunities. As per the economic data this
industry is poised for a quantum leap in the
coming years .

10. The Indian Army has a total troop strength of around 2.5
million (1.3 million active and 1.2 million reserve) .
It is the second largest standing army in the world.
Indian Navy currently operates more than 155 vessels,
including the INS Viraat, the only aircraft carrier in Asia
operating jet fighters.
The Indian Air Force has a strength of approximately 170,000
personnel and 1,242 combat aircraft.
It is the fourth largest air force in the world after US, Russia
and China.[
DEFENSE

12. INFRASTRUCTURE
$9 billion programme to upgrade 25 airports.
Delhi and Mumbai International airports – two PPP projects
with estimated investment of $3.8 billion.
$54 billion earmarked for construction of roads and highways.
100% foreign direct investment allowed in this sector.
India secured a $20 billion infrastructure investment from
China.
Narendra Modi Includes a proposed increase in infrastructure
spending of $800 billion to reach targeted economic growth of 7%
as well as enabling banks to buy infrastructure bonds to spur
trading activity in the debt.

13. • In 1991, India was a member of the G77 group of developing India is a proud
member of the G20, the most-powerful countries in the world.
•In 1991, India was infamous as the world's biggest beggar, a bottomless pit for
foreign aid. It soaked up 40% of the funds of the International Development
Association (IDA), the soft-loan window of the World Bank.
• Today, India is as much a donor as a recipient. Meanwhile, India itself has
become a substantial donor, including a line of credit of $10 billion to Africa, $2
billion to Bangladesh.
•Remittances from NRIs total $73 billion a year, and foreign direct and
portfolio investment often exceed $60 billion per year. Commercial loans
exceed $35 billion. India now finances itself overwhelmingly on commercial
terms, not through aid.
•Its per capita income has shot up from $375 in 2011 to $1,700 today, taking it
from low-income to middle-income status.
ECONOMIC GROWTH OF INDIA

14. • Between 2004 and 2011, a record 138 million Indians were raised above the poverty line.
•India suffered two successive droughts in 2014 and 2015. Yet this time, it remained a net
food exporter. It became the world's largest rice exporter in 2014.
•Today, India has a billion cell phones, instant availability and the cheapest telecom rates in
the world.
•Now two-thirds have TV sets and the country has over 900 TV channels.
•India was historically an economic laggard. For decades it grew at just 3.5% per year,
derisively called the 'Hindu rate of growth'. This accelerated in the 1980s to 5.5%, India
then embarked on economic reforms in 1991.
•India today is the fastest-growing major economy in the world, touching 7.6% in 2016 after
a similar rate in 2015.

15. I.T SECTOR
India is the world's largest sourcing destination for the information technology (IT) industry,
accounting for approximately 67 per cent of the US$ 124-130 billion market.
India, the fourth largest base for new businesses in the world and home to over 3,100 tech start-
ups, is set to increase its base to 11,500 tech start-ups by 2020.
The Indian IT sector is expected to grow at a rate of 12-14 per cent for FY2016.
India's cost competitiveness in providing IT services, which is approximately 3-4 times
cheaper than the US.
The IT-BPM sector which is currently valued at US$ 143 billion is expected to grow at a
Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 8.3 per cent year-on-year to US$ 143 billion for
2015-16.
The sector is expected to contribute 9.5 per cent of India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
and more than 45 per cent in total services export in 2015-16.

16. •The Government of India has set an ambitious target of increasing the contribution of
manufacturing output to 25 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2025, from 16
per cent currently.
•With the help of Make in India drive, India is on the path of becoming the hub for hi-tech
manufacturing as global giants.
•Airbus has procured more than US$ 500 million worth of supplies from India in 2015,
registering a growth of 15 per cent annually.
•Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages plans to set up a bottling plant with an investment of Rs
750 crore (US$ 110.04 million)

17. •Siemens has announced that it will invest € 1 billion (US$ 1.13 billion) in India to add 4,000
jobs to its existing workforce of 16,000 in the country.
•Samsung Electronics has invested Rs 517 crore (US$ 75.85 million) towards the expansion
of its manufacturing plant in Noida, Uttar Pradesh (UP).
•US-based First Solar Inc and China’s Trina Solar have plans to set up manufacturing
facilities in India. Clean energy investments in India increased to US$ 7.9 billion in 2014.
•Havells India Limited, plans to set up a new manufacturing unit near Bengaluru by
making an investment of Rs 1,059 crore (US$ 153.37 million).

18. By this we can conclude that India is in process of becoming a
super power so we can say that India is potential superpower.
Many flaws still remain. Thousands of projects remain stuck in red tape.
All government services remain lousy. Corruption, waste and sloth are
visible everywhere. Education and health remain deplorable. Indian
institutions are low-quality, weak and subservient to political
interference.
The police-judicial system is moribund, with a backlog of 31 million
cases. The future agenda must inc .