Indian Automobile Industry

This book is aimed at analyzing the automobile industry in India for the period 1985-2007 in various parameters. The main objectives of this study are to analyze the growth of the industry, to study export and import performance of the industry, to find out the employment generation in terms of output by the industry and finally to analyze the spatial distribution of the automobile industry across the country. In this study the author tried to find out the impact of reforms on the automobile industry and concluded that there has been a positive impact of reform on the growth of the automobile industry, increase in export promotion. The study reveals that there is a positive relationship between the output of the industry and employment generation. Coming to the spatial distribution of the industry in India states like Maharastra, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh outperforming in this industry whereas a state like West Bengal stood backward in the growth of automobile industry. The researcher found backwardness of the automobile industry at West Bengal would be the policy decisions of the State Government.