Investment and Business

Opportunities in Punjab

Dr. Harish Anand

16th Jan.2010,
NRIFC, Jalandhar
Drivers of Investment-Business Opportunities

 Potential for high value low cost supply

chain
 Presence of consumers with high
consumption potential
 Enabling environment-Political, Social and
economic
 Entrepreneurs-who can see above
Punjab: Tapping Human Resources

Large pool of human resources

• More than 100 business schools
• More than 2.5 lacs science, commerce, arts graduate
and post graduates
• About 12-13 lacs Senior Secondary School pass out and
about 9-10 lacs High/post basic school

Ample opportunities for setting up BPOs especially related to

IT enabled services on the one side and sourcing /
manufacturing base for High labour intensive manufacturing
Punjab Export Basket-Rs.14000 crore

30 26

25

20
14 13
15
9
10 7 7
5 5
5 3 3

0
 Some more areas for setting manufacturing
ventures

 Agri-business
 Fruit and vegetable processing
 Honey production
 Organic farming

 High end IT solutions

Punjab: Big market for high income group
products
INDIA: PER CAPITA INCOME (RS)

Jharkhand
Meghalaya
Chattisgarh
Karnataka
Andhra Pradesh
Tamil Nadu
Himachal Pradesh
Kerala
Punjab
Haryana

0 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000

 Some of the indicative areas are

 Products of High life style- Mercedes

benzs
Demand for high quality education and sports
facilities –Harvest academy
Tourism and Hospitality
Health care
Real Estate- Development of commercial and
residential facilities of international standards
 Protecting and promoting Punjabi Virsa

 Invest in education
Basic- Higher secondary -And above

 Invest for improving governance standards

Land records
Civil courts routine issues-driving license
 Invest in agri based business
Thank You