India’s manufacturing divergence across states | Number Theory

ByAbhishek Jha,
Updated on: Sept 19, 2025 02:58 am IST

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The first article of this three-part series explained the importance of boosting manufacturing to improve India’s living standards and cited its key role in the economic rise of China. To repeat the clichéd question of how India can emulate the Chinese path in boosting manufacturing, one needs to begin by underlining the fact that manufacturing shows large inter-state variation in India. Here are four charts which explain this in detail.

Workers sew winter garments at a Gokaldas garment facility in Bengaluru, India, September 16.(REUTERS)
Workers sew winter garments at a Gokaldas garment facility in Bengaluru, India, September 16.(REUTERS)
Inequality among states in manufacturing is greater than overall GVA among states
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