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The Well Being in India: disparity and surprises across districts report prepared by Tata Strategic Management Group has been released on 15th June 2010.

The report talked about the issue of income versus well being as highlighted by Prof. Joseph Stiglitz and others. Well being, in the Indian context needs to consider a range of indicators representing material and social factors. Well Being Index (WBI) has been developed for each and every district using the NSSO Household Survey data and Census, 2001. The Well Being Index reveals wide disparities across the districts even in the same state.

However, while the WBI captures all major material parameters, it does not include a very important reality of Indian society – the well being, status and treatment of women. Hence, using Gender Ratio and data on Crime against women (National Crime Bureau – 2006, 2007), a Female Security Index for each district in India was computed. There is a clear divide between the North and South India. The interesting observation is that there is no correlation between the well being of the district and the female security.

Clearly, insights on district wise parameters and trends should be the foundation for action planning and effective performance.  This applies to all types of players – whether a policy maker wishing to improve ‘well being’ in rural India, or an NGO aiming to improve gender equality or a business house planning to increase the penetration of its goods or services in the domestic market.

The Well Being in India report can be downloaded from the following link: Well Being Index India Report.pdf (500KB)

The ‘IndiaChem Gujarat 2009' industry report jointly prepared by FICCI and Tata Strategic Management Group was released on 12th December 2009 at Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

The report provides an overview of the Indian specialty chemicals industry and highlights market size and growth, demand-supply scenario, key industry trends (market, technological and regulatory) and future outlook. The key segments featured in the report include agrochemicals, colourants and other segments like active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), water treatment chemicals, personal care ingredients, construction chemicals and polymer additives. It puts forth interesting insights on how these segments will evolve in the future and the opportunities and challenges which this will throw up. Some of the key points made in the report include the following:

-  The growth slowdown, demand contraction and subsequent recovery over the last year or so have not impacted the long-term growth prospects of the specialty chemicals industry

-  Specialty and knowledge chemicals together could grow at ~14%-15% p.a. over the next few years

-  Gujarat is a hub of chemical production in India and the chemical and petrochemical industry is expected to continue its growth momentum

The report also includes a separate section on recent related thought notes published by Tata Strategic. This section provides key insights on contemporary trends and issues related to Indian specialty chemicals industry.

The IndiaChem Gujarat 2009 report can be downloaded from the following link: IndiaChem Gujarat 2009.pdf (2.56MB)

- Growth of specialty chemicals which is expected to be a $40 billion industry over the next 5 years,

- Base chemicals industry achieving globally competitive manufacturing capability enabling rapid growth including the fertilizer industry’s global orientation

- Growth of contract manufacturing of pharma intermediates/active ingredients targeted at innovator companies