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Good that they forced change but this is why India will never become industrialized.

Apple will just move manufacturing back to China if more negative news makes it out of India.

You may be surprised to hear that India is already industrialized... and has been for decades.

Half of India's population are still working in the agriculture sector. That is not normal in 2021 not even for developing countries.

>Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for about 58% of India’s population

https://www.ibef.org/industry/agriculture-india.aspx

India needs a bigger manufacturing sector.

India's manufacturing sector is about 13% of GDP and the US's manufacturing sector is about 11%. There are a lot of people living in rural India but they don't interfere with or detract from the Indians living in urban India.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.MANF.ZS?location...

US's manufacturing sector was 28% 1955, it went down post industrialization.

What makes you think India is _not_ industrialized?

I would say: if its Tier 1 cities like Mumbai do not have a reliable supply of electricity and running water (infrastructure necessary for industry), then it is not industrialized.

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