One of Narendra Modi’s first promises when elected India’s prime minister in 2014 was to revive the country’s manufacturing sector. India had been de-industrializing since the early part of the century and policy makers correctly argued that only mass manufacturing could create enough jobs for a workforce growing by a million young people a month. In his first major speech as prime minister, Modi invited the world to help: “I want to appeal all the people world over [sic], ‘Come, make in India,’ ‘Come, manufacture in India.’ Sell in any country of the world but manufacture here.” The “Make in India” slogan quickly developed into a full-fledged government program, complete with a snazzy symbol a striding lion made out of meshed gears. Government officials spoke at length about increasing foreign direct investment and improving the business climate to attract multinational companies. Careful targeting of the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business indicators
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Zomato delivered 22 biryanis every minute in 2020, Bengaluru resident placed 1,380 orders
IANS / Updated: Dec 31, 2020, 06:56 IST
Zomato.
India s love for biryani only seems to grow by the day as even during this pandemic-hit year when many people donned the chef s hat, food-tech unicorn
Zomato on Wednesday said it delivered 22
biryanis every minute in 2020.
And it is not just chicken and mutton biryanis that people of the country savoured as the platform received nearly 19.8 lakh orders for vegetable biryani.
The number of orders for pizza also increased steeply over the months as data from Zomato showed that from 4.5 lakh pizza orders in May, the numbers shot to over 17 lakh orders in November.