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Subido el 23 de julio de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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By 2010, it is estimated that India will have the highest number of English speakers in the world. The country has had a sustained economic growth rate of over six percent. In 2004, India became a strategic partner of the EU, joining the club alongside the US, Russia and China. Last year an ambitious action plan was set in motion to bring forward co-operation between India and the EU on a range of issues including security, human rights, migration, culture, trade and investment and to forge a closer and more productive global partnership. This video report examines some of the reasons why EU and India have become global partners. We begin the report with the morning journey of Guru Murthy, one of 150,000 IT professionals who work in Bangalore, the Indian equivalent of Silicone Valley. A well educated workforce with considerable spending power, young professionals like Guru make India an attractive prospect for European business investment. The pharmaceutical industry too has contributed to India's growth and like IT has been an important focus of the EU - India partnership. Amar Lulla, Managing Director of CIPLA explains the strengths of the Indian industry, and the developments which have been made in recent years 'We are way up on the learning curve, we are now able to participate on a different footing' The partnership between the EU and India has been built on many cornerstones - the two hold strong beliefs in democracy and human rights and share mutual trade interests - the EU is India's largest trading partner and the main source of foreign investment into India. As we approach the next EU-India summit, it is clear that close co-operation will see the two develop as 'global partners in the global village'. The Video Report features key interviews with Nandan M. Nilekani CEO, President and MD, Infosys Technologies, Amar Lulla, Managing Director of Cipla Pharmaceuticals and G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman of ISRO.

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A strategic partnership between the European Union and India was launched in 2004. 00:00:00

Last year, an ambitious action plan was set in motion to bring forward cooperation between India and the EU 00:00:07

on a range of issues including security, human rights, migration, culture, trade and investment. 00:00:13

The partnership between the EU and India has been built on many cornerstones. 00:00:20

The two hold strong beliefs in democracy and human rights and share mutual trade interests. 00:00:26

The EU is India's largest trading partner and the main source of foreign investment into India. 00:00:31

For India, there is still significant potential in terms of trade into Europe 00:00:37

and the country is steadily exploiting that potential. 00:00:41

It's early morning in Bangalore, India, and Guru Murthy makes his way to work. 00:00:46

He's just one of 150,000 IT professionals working in Bangalore, the Indian equivalent of Silicon Valley. 00:00:51

India has become a world leader in software outsourcing 00:00:59

and every year thousands of highly skilled IT graduates like Guru feed into the industry. 00:01:02

I did my professional degree in engineering and information technology from Bangalore University 00:01:08

and just after that there was a campus interview and I just hopped onto the corporate ladder. 00:01:14

We are the world's second largest pool of technical manpower. 00:01:21

We all speak English as the language of business. 00:01:24

We have very good telecommunication network with the world. 00:01:26

And because we have had a market economy, 00:01:29

we have all the ingredients for an ecosystem to become part of the global economy. 00:01:31

Based in Bangalore's Electronic City, one of the world's largest IT campuses, 00:01:37

world leaders like Infosys are a homegrown success 00:01:42

and internationally an attractive prospect for European business investment. 00:01:45

Across India, there are opportunities for the EU-India partnership to develop in the ICT field. 00:01:51

But the IT sector is also a clear example of the progress that India has made on the domestic front. 00:01:58

This well-educated workforce represent a modern India and like Guru, have considerable spending power. 00:02:05

And at just 26, Guru has built his own five-bedroom home. 00:02:11

He moved in just a few months ago with his mother, brother and niece. 00:02:16

I thought I need to have a house which is internet compatible or something like that. 00:02:20

So I made a house which is totally networked and I made sure that there is an entertainment room 00:02:25

and I wanted to have a home theatre over there. 00:02:30

And now in the last one month I made that possible. 00:02:33

As a global partner for the EU, the numbers are adding up for India. 00:02:37

108 million children attend primary school, making it the second largest education system after China. 00:02:41

By 2010, it's estimated that India will have the highest number of English speakers in the world. 00:02:48

And the country has had a sustained economic growth rate of over 6%. 00:02:53

With its 1 billion population, there are also many complex numbers. 00:03:00

With its 35 state and union territories, 15 major languages and more than 6 major religions, 00:03:05

India has remained the world's largest democracy. 00:03:11

Here we have such tremendous diversity and this diversity could not have been managed 00:03:16

but by a democratic structure. 00:03:21

Because otherwise one community, one religion, one caste, one state, one language group 00:03:24

will try to dominate the other. 00:03:29

Democracy is now a tradition for many generations. 00:03:32

Families discuss politics and politicians regularly. 00:03:36

When India votes, more people go to the polls than in the EU and North America together 00:03:39

and two years ago India undertook the largest electronic vote to date. 00:03:44

Election in India, you know, is like a festival to a certain extent, I mean, to put it positively. 00:03:49

Because people feel that there is something which they are going to change 00:03:56

or they are going to decide which otherwise the destiny decides, otherwise the fate decides. 00:04:01

But here is a time that in my election booth no destiny and no fate is going to enter. 00:04:06

I am going to enter, I am going to stamp or I am going to push the electronic button. 00:04:12

The pharmaceutical industry too has contributed to India's growth 00:04:18

and like IT has been an important focus of the EU-India partnership. 00:04:22

Following the Doha trade negotiations, India formally recognised product patents, 00:04:28

which has caused concern about the future of the industry domestically. 00:04:33

The EU played a key role in ensuring that international trade agreements 00:04:37

took into account the position of emergent generic industries as exists in India. 00:04:41

And with generic drugs worth over 40 billion US dollars going off patent, 00:04:46

Indian firms like Cipla will make a welcome partner internationally. 00:04:51

Our past experience is what is going to see us through in the future. 00:04:56

Because being a generic industry, we are very strong in terms of our infrastructure, 00:04:59

in terms of the technology that we have developed and the experience that we have acquired. 00:05:05

So we are way up on the learning curve and we are able to now participate on a different footing. 00:05:09

When we talk about India, we have to understand that India is a country full of contradictions. 00:05:16

You have the latest in technology, cheek by jaw with the immense poverty and the two coexist. 00:05:22

300 million people live in poverty in India. 00:05:32

That's 300 million less than a generation ago, but there remains a lot more to do. 00:05:36

The government has launched what they call a direct assault on poverty 00:05:41

and are clear that the fight against poverty and economic growth must go hand in hand. 00:05:45

The latest in technology is playing a further role in India's battle. 00:05:51

Founded in 1969, the Indian Space Research Organisation launched its first satellite in 1975. 00:06:01

Our founding father, Dr. Sarabhai, had a great vision. 00:06:09

That is, the space technology can be tuned to meet the needs of the common man. 00:06:12

In fact, we have lived truly to his vision and today we are one of the major countries in the world 00:06:18

who have got the capability to build the satellites of remote sensing and communications as well as launch them. 00:06:26

With 70% of India's 1 billion people living in villages, communication is vital. 00:06:34

Via satellite, new telemedicine programmes have been established 00:06:40

where villagers in remote locations can access the expertise of urban doctors. 00:06:44

Crop management, early warning systems against floods and interactive classrooms are now all possible via satellite. 00:06:49

Next year, India is going to the moon. 00:06:57

Under an agreement between the ISRO and the European Space Agency, 00:07:00

three instruments from Europe will be on board the unmanned expedition Chandrayaan-1. 00:07:04

The EU and India also have agreed to cooperate on Galileo, the European Global Satellite Navigation System, 00:07:10

just some of the many collaborations between the EU and India across a range of science and technology fields. 00:07:16

India has always maintained clear objectives about its space programme as a development tool, 00:07:25

but for the rest of the world, space exploration puts India in a different context. 00:07:30

As we approach the next EU-India summit, it's clear that climate change is not the end of the world. 00:07:35

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