22,000 new scholarships for African students in various academic courses: Preneet Kaur

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22,000 new scholarships for African students in various academic courses: Preneet Kaur​

New Delhi, Mar 1 (ANI): Highlighting India's commitment to development in Africa, Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur said here on Thursday that 22,000 new scholarships for African students in various academic courses and training programmes, including special agriculture scholarships and C.V. Raman fellowships have been made available. Kaur, who was addressing the inaugural session of India-Africa Science and Technology Ministerial Conference, said proposals for the institutional strengthening of identified institutions in Africa and the transfer of need based technologies have also been initiated. "There is a provision for 22,000 new scholarships for African students in various academic courses and training programmes including special agriculture scholarships and C.V. Raman fellowships," said Kaur. "As per India's commitment to assist African countries in the field of Science and Technology, proposals for institutional strengthening of identified institutions in Africa and transfer of need based technologies have also been initiated," she added. She informed that her ministry has duly secured approvals from the Union Cabinet to support these initiatives through its "Aid to Africa" budget. Kaur also said that India has successfully implemented the Pan-African e-Network Project, including tele-education, tele-medicine and connectivity between leaders in 47 African countries and an agreement has also been signed for its implementation in the 48th country, South Sudan recently. Under the framework of the Science and Technology Initiatives for Africa, Department of Science and Technology in partnership with Ministry of External Affairs organised the 'India-Africa Science and Technology Ministers Conference'. This major ministerial level event has being organised in close coordination with the African Union Commission and is being attended by science and technology ministers from across the African continent along with senior official from various countries. he event is expected to provide a platform for the advocacy, outreach and commitment of India under the framework of the New Science and Technology Cooperation Initiative with Africa. The ministerial conference also intends to help to develop linkages and also secure the interests and commitments of the African partners to this Indian initiative. (ANI)

22,000 new scholarships for African students in various academic courses: Preneet Kaur

New Delhi, Mar 1 (ANI): Highlighting India's commitment to development in Africa, Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur said here on Thursday that 22,000 new scholarships for African students in various academic courses and training programmes, including special agriculture...

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India would be establishing more than 100 capacity building institutions in Africa, Kaur said, adding 22,000 scholarships would also be made available for African students to pursue various academic courses in India.

Read more at: https://www.oneindia.com/2012/03/20/indiafor-stronger-economic-ties-with-africa-preneetkaur.html

 

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India would be establishing more than 100 capacity building institutions in Africa, Kaur said, adding 22,000 scholarships would also be made available for African students to pursue various academic courses in India.

Read more at: https://www.oneindia.com/2012/03/20/indiafor-stronger-economic-ties-with-africa-preneetkaur.html

 

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India approves over $91.5m for Afghan scholarships ​

KABUL): The Indian cabinet on Saturday approved Rs492.55 crore ($91.576 million) to fund enhanced scholarships for Afghan students, the government in New Delhi said.

“Scholarships for Afghan students in various universities in India will significantly contribute to the human resource development of Afghanistan Bureau said.

Afghan students’ skills would contribute toward the development of their country, the bureau hoped in a statement. The scholarship scheme will be implemented by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations till 2020-21.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the enhancement of scholarships during his visit to Afghanistan in May 2011.

Abdul Azim Noorbakhsh, the higher ministry spokesman, welcomed the Indian government’s decision. He acknowledged India offered Afghan students the largest number of scholarships.

He said of the 10,000 Afghans currently doing doctorates, masters and bachelor degrees abroad, 5,000 are studying in India.

The government in Kabul had doubled funds for the Afghans studying abroad from $5 million to id=”mce_marker”0 million, he said, promising the allocation would be enhanced to id=”mce_marker”5 million next year.

In 2012, 150 students were sent to India, but this year the number of Afghans in Indian universities will reach 400.

India approves over $91.5m for Afghan scholarships

KABUL): The Indian cabinet on Saturday approved Rs492.55 crore ($91.576 million) to fund enhanced scholarships for Afghan students, the government in New Delhi said. “Scholarships

pajhwok.com

 

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OFFER OF SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY IN INDIA UNDER ICCR AFRICA SCHOLARSHIPS SCHEME: 2023-24​

The Government of India offer Scholarships to Malagasy and Comorian students through Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) under Africa Scholarship Scheme to follow Undergraduate, Postgraduate, M. Phil. /Ph.D. course in various reputed Indian Universities/Institutes. The Scholarship is given for various courses: Agriculture, Commerce and Management, Engineering, Applied course (Journalism and Communication, Tourism Management, Pharmacy, Computer Application, etc…).

The applications from interested students for the academic year 2023-24 are invited online through ICCR’s A2A Scholarship Portal http://a2ascholarships.iccr.gov.in/ The last date of online application is on 31 May 2023.

Before applying for the scholarship programme, candidates are advised read the detailed policy guidelines and instructions at ICCR’s A2A Scholarship Portal.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:

Candidates must achieve adequate level of English Proficiency as medium of instruction in India is English.

Candidates must be:

between 18 and 30 years old for Undergraduate/Postgraduate courses

between 18 and 45 years old for PhD Programmes

Candidates must be fully fit to be able to stay and complete his/her course in India and should not be suffering with any life-threatening ailment.

Candidates must possess all required supporting documents.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS:

All academic certificates and mark sheet from grade 10 with certified English translation attested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, if the original documents are not in English.

TOEFEL/IELTS and other standardized test scores, if available.

Recommendations/character certificates from existing school/University etc.

Certified copy of valid passport. (Passport should be valid for the duration of the course applied for.)

GMAT score for Commerce and Management course. (If required by the University)

A certificate of physical fitness dully filled by a sworn Doctor (Physical fitness format to be downloaded on ICCR’s A2A Scholarship Portal).

Synopsis details only for Ph.D. candidates.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Online application should be complete in all respects, with all the required information and all necessary supporting documents. Any incomplete application will not be processed further.

The application will not be considered without English translation of documents if the original documents are not in English.

Applicants have the option to apply to 5 Universities/Institutes in the order of their preference of study.

Students should submit a 500-word essay in English to ascertain English proficiency while applying online.

Embassy of India, Antananarivo, Madagascar : ICCR Africa Scholarship Scheme

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ICCR Scholarship

High Commission of India, Pretoria, South Africa : ICCR Scholarship

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A Global Shift in Foreign Aid, Starting in India
Before a visit this week from President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, aimed at wooing investment, India approved development projects in Afghanistan to the tune of $100 million as part of India’s $2 billion aid package to the war-torn country. In 2010, the country extended a $1 billion line of credit to Bangladesh, the highest ever one-time assistance, and last year, it offered $5 billion in credit to African nations. With a broadening aid portfolio, New Delhi recently announced plans to set up its own aid agency.

Part of the reason for such nonchalance, analysts say, is that British aid to India, which amounts to $450 million per year and is used primarily in health care and education, is small. Last year, the finance minister at the time, Pranab Mukherjee, reportedly dismissed the funds as “peanuts” compared to India’s own spending.

A Global Shift in Foreign Aid, Starting in India

Britain’s decision to cut aid to India after decades comes as developed countries worldwide rethink what they give.

archive.nytimes.com

 

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PM Modi announce a concessional credit of $10 billion to Africa that included Nigeria and 50000 scholarships to African students at the India-Africa Forum Summit in 2015. India's line of credit to Africa is close to $9 billion, with projects taking up $7.4 billion. India sent a grant of $10 million to UN to fight Ebola and another $2 million bilaterally to Guinea to tackle the disease.[2]

India was the first Asian country to become a member of the Africa Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF).[11] Between 2002 and 2021, India provided over US$11 billion in concessions to African countries. India donated 150 metric tons of medical aid to 25 African countries, and supplied over 24.7 million doses of COVID vaccines to 42 countries in Africa as of February 2021.[12]

Indian foreign aid - Wikipedia

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Lines of Credit for Development Projects

Development assistance in the form of concessional Lines of Credit (LOCs) is extended by the Government of India under the Indian Development and Economic Assistance Scheme (IDEAS) through the Exim Bank of India. In total 306 LOCs worth US$ 30.59 billion have been extended to 65 countries.. The projects under the LOCs cover critical infrastructure sectors such as transport connectivity through railways, roads and ports; power generation and distribution; agriculture and irrigation; manufacturing industries, healthcare, education and capacity building. So far about 322 LoC projects have been completed while 277 projects are under implementation.

Out of the total LOCs of US$ 30.59 billion, US$ 16.095 billion have been extended to Asian countries, with the largest value of commitments having been made in India’s immediate neighbourhood. LOCs worth US$ 7.862 billion have been extended to Bangladesh, US$ 2.129 billion to Sri Lanka, US$ 1.65 billion to Nepal, US$ 765 million to Mauritius, US$ 1.33 billion to Maldives, US$ 476 million to Myanmar and US$ 128 million to Seychelles.

There is a special focus on regional connectivity initiatives in the neighbourhood under GoI LOCs as these can act as force multipliers to accelerate regional growth & development, promote people-to-people contact and encourage trade and commerce. A total of 100 connectivity projects of around USD 7 billion have been taken up under LOCs in 4 countries in our neighbourhood, out of which 50 projects have already been completed. These include:

Bangladesh​

31 projects (13 already completed). 17 Rail (9 completed), 8 Road (3 completed), 5 Ports/Shipping (1 completed), 1 Airport. Apart from this, there are 3 Power Transmission Line projects and 1 Telecom project. The Power transmission lines for Power Evacuation facilities for the first Nuclear Power Plant of Bangladesh in Rooppur worth US$ 1 billion are also being implemented under GoI LOC extended to Bangladesh.

Nepal​

46 Road projects (22 already completed). Apart from this there are 4 Power Transmission Line Projects (1 completed). These road projects in various parts of Nepal will increase internal connectivity and will help improve transportation linkages with India.

Sri Lanka​

19 projects (12 already completed). 16 Rail (10 completed), 2 Road (2 completed) and 1 Port project. Reconstruction of Sri Lankan Railways after the civil war has been done primarily through GoI LOCs.

Myanmar​

4 projects (3 already completed). 3 Rail (2 completed), 1 Road (1 completed). Apart from this, there are 3 Power Transmission (3 completed) and 2 Telecom projects (2 completed).

India has completed numerous iconic infrastructure projects in partner countries under the Lines of Credit. Some of these iconic projects include the Parliament Building of Gambia, the Presidential Palace in Ghana, the Kosti Power project in Sudan which provides 1/3rd of the country’s power, the Nyaborongo Power Project in Rwanda which provides 1/4th of the country’s power, Railway Bridges and Signalling Systems in Bangladesh, the post-war rebuilding of the Sri Lankan Railways etc. India is building the first Oil Refinery of Mongolia under LOC at a cost of USD 1.24 billion which will provide critical energy security to this landlocked country. India has set up the first ever industrial units in many countries like the first Cement Plant of Djibouti, the first Milk Processing Plant of Mauritania, the first Sugar Factory of Ghana etc. The Upper Ruvu Water Treatment Plant in Tanzania provides clean drinking water to more than 2 million people in the Dar es Salaam area. LoCs have also been extended in many new sectors like defence and solar energy.

Lines of Credit for Development Projects

Lines of Credit for Development Projects

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India approves over $91.5m for Afghan scholarships ​

KABUL): The Indian cabinet on Saturday approved Rs492.55 crore ($91.576 million) to fund enhanced scholarships for Afghan students, the government in New Delhi said.

“Scholarships for Afghan students in various universities in India will significantly contribute to the human resource development of Afghanistan Bureau said.

Afghan students’ skills would contribute toward the development of their country, the bureau hoped in a statement. The scholarship scheme will be implemented by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations till 2020-21.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the enhancement of scholarships during his visit to Afghanistan in May 2011.

Abdul Azim Noorbakhsh, the higher ministry spokesman, welcomed the Indian government’s decision. He acknowledged India offered Afghan students the largest number of scholarships.

He said of the 10,000 Afghans currently doing doctorates, masters and bachelor degrees abroad, 5,000 are studying in India.

The government in Kabul had doubled funds for the Afghans studying abroad from $5 million to id=”mce_marker”0 million, he said, promising the allocation would be enhanced to id=”mce_marker”5 million next year.

In 2012, 150 students were sent to India, but this year the number of Afghans in Indian universities will reach 400.

India approves over $91.5m for Afghan scholarships

KABUL): The Indian cabinet on Saturday approved Rs492.55 crore ($91.576 million) to fund enhanced scholarships for Afghan students, the government in New Delhi said. “Scholarships

pajhwok.com

The situation suggests just how dramatically the economic rise of Asia has undone centuries of experience, and the expectation that the West will retain the hegemony it has had for the past 400 years. It is increasingly difficult to classify whether a nation is rich or poor, and terms such as "the Global South" and "the Third World" have to be heavily qualified to take into account the fact that large sections of the population in countries like China, Brazil, and India now have a purchasing power matching that of people in "the West."

In 1951, the American diplomat Bill Bullitt described the condition of India in Life magazine: "An immense country containing 357 million people," he wrote, "with enormous natural resources and superb fighting men, India can neither feed herself nor defend herself against serious attacks. An inhabitant of India lives, on average, 27 years. His annual income is about $50. About 90 out of 100 Indians cannot read or write. They exist in squalor and fear of famine." Today, it would be hard to make such an absolute statement about India. Poverty certainly remains a chronic problem, but it exists alongside pockets of substantial wealth. An Indian's life expectancy at birth now stands at 67 years, and continues to rise. It is necessary perhaps to think in a different way, and to see that a country like India, like Schrödinger's cat, exists in at least two forms simultaneously: rich and poor.

Poor Little Rich Country

How do you categorize India, a nation that is at once fantastically wealthy and desperately poor?

foreignpolicy.com

 

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India ramps up Africa lending in the race to counter China​

Africa has become the second-largest recipient of credit from India as New Delhi tries to catch up with China in expanding its influence in the resource-rich continent, according to a report.

According to a Bloomberg report, citing Harsha Bangari, the managing director of India’s Export Import Bank, 42 African nations received about $32 billion or 38% of all credit extended by India in the last decade — just a few percentage points below its neighbors.

The bank is an instrument of India’s “economic diplomacy,” Bloomberg quoted Bangari as saying.

She said India has also opened up 195 project-based lines of credit worth about $12 billion across Africa, three times the number it has in its own region in the last decade.

“Africa has made good use of credit lines,” extended for projects that include health care, infrastructure, agriculture and irrigation and India is seeing a steady increase in demand, she said.

India has recently made an attempt to engage with nations on Africa, the second-largest continent in the globe, but its efforts have trailed behind those of its larger and wealthier neighbour.

According to data from Boston University’s Global Development Policy Centre, While China’s loans to Africa have dipped since 2016, overall in the 10 years to 2020, it pledged $134.6 billion to African nations, according to data from Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center. That’s almost 11 times more than what India has offered, reported Bloomberg.

Deeper ties with Africa

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has pushed for deeper engagement with Africa, strengthening both diplomatic and economic ties. New Delhi sees an opportunity to expand farther into the continent as it struggles with the pandemic’s economic effects and Russia’s conflict in Ukraine.

In the last nine years, 18 of the 25 new Indian embassies or consulates were in Africa. In February, India hosted 48 African countries at the Voice of Global South summit.

PM Modi has also been championing India as a representative of the Global South and using platforms like its presidency of the Group of 20 nations to draw attention to the debt crises in developing economies.

“We are trying to think 25 years from now,” the report cited Foreign Minister S Jaishankar as saying in a speech on 28 June.

“And ask ourselves where are we likely to be in 2047 and what should we be doing now to prepare for it,” he added.

China’s quantum of financing is bigger than India, but New Delhi let’s governments decide what they need and doesn’t burden them with the sort of vanity projects Beijing is often critiqued for, Bangari said.

“If you see the projects which India has supported you will see they bring a lot of benefits to the economy.”

India ramps up Africa lending in the race to counter China

Africa has become the second-largest recipient of credit from India as New Delhi tries to catch up with China in expanding its influence in the resource-rich continent, according to a report

www.firstpost.com

 

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PM Modi announce a concessional credit of $10 billion to Africa that included Nigeria and 50000 scholarships to African students at the India-Africa Forum Summit in 2015. India's line of credit to Africa is close to $9 billion, with projects taking up $7.4 billion. India sent a grant of $10 million to UN to fight Ebola and another $2 million bilaterally to Guinea to tackle the disease.[2]

India was the first Asian country to become a member of the Africa Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF).[11] Between 2002 and 2021, India provided over US$11 billion in concessions to African countries. India donated 150 metric tons of medical aid to 25 African countries, and supplied over 24.7 million doses of COVID vaccines to 42 countries in Africa as of February 2021.[12]

Indian foreign aid - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The table below presents the list of countries consistently considered NICs by different authors and experts.

Newly industrialized country - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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32,000 Africans earn scholarships from India​

Some 32,000 African students have benefited from Indian government scholarships since 2015, part of the 50,000 opportunities the country had pledged to give African students over a 10-year period.

According to the country’s external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, this is in addition to thousands of other students from the 19 different countries in the continent who have benefited from the virtual education platform, e-VidyaBharti, run by his government since 2019.

“We are committed to enhancing capacity building & skill development among African youth,” the minister said at the 17th CII-EXIM Bank Conclave on India-Africa Growth Partnership in Delhi last week.

“In this context, you would recall that we had announced 50,000 scholarships during India Africa Forum Summit-III in 2015, out of which more than 32,000 scholarship slots have already been utilised.”

The e-VidyaBharti offers diplomas, undergraduate and postgraduate study opportunities to students and professionals.

A number of students and officials from Africa have been trained under the ITEC program, a technical and economic cooperation initiative run by the external affairs ministry for the benefits of developing countries, he noted. Among others, it includes educational scholarships and a “wide range of capacity building programs including short-term civilian and military training courses”.

“India has helped African countries to promote digital transformation through setting-up of IT Centres, Science & Technology Parks and Entrepreneurship Development Centres,” he observed.

One of the 19 countries that has benefited from the e-VidyaBharti is the East African nation of Uganda which, according to the Indian government, has enrolled over 300 students since 2020.

Africa is one of the major markets for foreign students in India and the continent’s most populous country, Nigeria, had the seventh highest number of students in 2020 with 1,525 learners enrolled in different institutions. The country had an estimated 47,000 foreign international students in its institutions according to different sources.

On the other hand, and in terms of regions, the East African region has been the biggest source of students contributing some around 2,800 out of the 5,800 enrolled in its universities in 2015 for example according to Statistica.

The region, according to James Jowi board member and founding director of the African Network for Internationalisation of Education, traditionally remains the major African source for the continent’s students enrolled in India.

For many years from the 1960s to the end 1990s the country remained the most popular destination for Africans but has since been overtaken by American and European destinations.

The change in fortunes he says is attributable to factors including expansion of the higher education sector in many African countries, and the emergence of new markets such as China.

“In addition, the explosion of ICT from the end of 1990s opened new opportunities to Africans, allowing them to explore destinations beyond India,” he told The PIE News.

Various initiatives and both multilateral and bilateral between African governments and their European and American counterparts have also aided the decline of India as Africa’s most popular destination.

The quality of education in India has also been a factor in the past owing to weak regulation, contributing to a drop in its popularity among many Africans, he said.

“At one point in Africa, it became very hard for India-educated graduates to secure jobs back home in Africa owing to poor quality of graduates coming from its universities, this led to a steep decline of the Asian nation as a destination,” he noted.

The offer of the scholarships in 2015 was in part a strategy to ensure that the country revived its status as a popular destination on the continent, he opined.

32,000 Africans earn Indian scholarships since 2015

News and business analysis for Professionals in International Education

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32,000 Africans earn Indian scholarships since 2015

News and business analysis for Professionals in International Education

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India ramps up Africa lending in the race to counter China​

Africa has become the second-largest recipient of credit from India as New Delhi tries to catch up with China in expanding its influence in the resource-rich continent, according to a report.

According to a Bloomberg report, citing Harsha Bangari, the managing director of India’s Export Import Bank, 42 African nations received about $32 billion or 38% of all credit extended by India in the last decade — just a few percentage points below its neighbors.

The bank is an instrument of India’s “economic diplomacy,” Bloomberg quoted Bangari as saying.

She said India has also opened up 195 project-based lines of credit worth about $12 billion across Africa, three times the number it has in its own region in the last decade.

“Africa has made good use of credit lines,” extended for projects that include health care, infrastructure, agriculture and irrigation and India is seeing a steady increase in demand, she said.

India has recently made an attempt to engage with nations on Africa, the second-largest continent in the globe, but its efforts have trailed behind those of its larger and wealthier neighbour.

According to data from Boston University’s Global Development Policy Centre, While China’s loans to Africa have dipped since 2016, overall in the 10 years to 2020, it pledged $134.6 billion to African nations, according to data from Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center. That’s almost 11 times more than what India has offered, reported Bloomberg.

Deeper ties with Africa

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has pushed for deeper engagement with Africa, strengthening both diplomatic and economic ties. New Delhi sees an opportunity to expand farther into the continent as it struggles with the pandemic’s economic effects and Russia’s conflict in Ukraine.

In the last nine years, 18 of the 25 new Indian embassies or consulates were in Africa. In February, India hosted 48 African countries at the Voice of Global South summit.

PM Modi has also been championing India as a representative of the Global South and using platforms like its presidency of the Group of 20 nations to draw attention to the debt crises in developing economies.

“We are trying to think 25 years from now,” the report cited Foreign Minister S Jaishankar as saying in a speech on 28 June.

“And ask ourselves where are we likely to be in 2047 and what should we be doing now to prepare for it,” he added.

China’s quantum of financing is bigger than India, but New Delhi let’s governments decide what they need and doesn’t burden them with the sort of vanity projects Beijing is often critiqued for, Bangari said.

“If you see the projects which India has supported you will see they bring a lot of benefits to the economy.”

India ramps up Africa lending in the race to counter China

Africa has become the second-largest recipient of credit from India as New Delhi tries to catch up with China in expanding its influence in the resource-rich continent, according to a report

www.firstpost.com

Modi must be eating shit.

How can India counter China? LOL!

 

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Modi must be eating shit.

How can India counter China? LOL!

counter is not a good word. but there is an extreme interests of China, India, Russia in Africa. its true...

 

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we have a news here for year 2022, as below. here, what would be the total numbers of Billionaires of South Asia as whole?
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India’s ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWI) with net worth over $30 million is estimated to rise by 58.4% in the next five years to 19,119 individuals in 2027 from 12,069 in 2022. India’s billionaire population is expected to move up to 195 individuals in 2027 from 161 individuals in 2022, showed a Knight Frank India report.

India’s ultra wealthy population to grow by 58.4% in next five years, Knight Frank

The Knight Frank India report estimates that the number of ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) in India will rise by 58.4% in the next five years to 19,119 individuals in 2027 from 12,069 in 2022. The Indian high-net-worth-individual (HNI) population, with asset value of $1 million and...

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a news as below:
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Jul 09, 2023

The middle class is the fastest-growing major segment of the Indian population in both percentage and absolute terms, rising at 6.3 percent per year between 1995 and 2021. It now represents 31 percent of the population and is expected to be 38 percent by 2031 and 60 percent in 2047. More than one billion Indians will make up the middle-class when India will turn 100. These are the figures from PRICE ICE 3600 surveys based on primary data.

How the middle class will play the hero in India's rise as world power

Imagine desi companies easily growing into global biggies supported by vast domestic scale. Growing disposable incomes, along with the rise of the middle class, will make India a consumption powerhouse.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

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No, that's not what PPP means.

You should be counting GDP PER CAPITA.

how you people think of Philippines, the NIC member as below? are the countries like Philippines able to feed themselves?
here we have table of NIC, current. we find GDP on PPP per Capita of India is close to Philippines-Indonesia, have a close look on the table as below.

Newly industrialized country - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

here i would say, India-Philippines-Vietnam-China might be having similar ratio of 'undocumented' part of GDP