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Here's how India can soar in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Robot arms assemble cars inside the Hyundai Motor India Ltd. plant at Kancheepuram district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu October 4, 2012. Running around the clock and selling everything it can build, Hyundai Motor's Indian factory is bursting at the seams. But as demand grows and rivals scale up, the car maker has chosen to take its foot off the pedal. Hyundai's strategic decision to focus on quality over quantity, even as its production lines are stretched in India and elsewhere, risks losing hard-won market share and is forcing it to divert output from its plant outside Chennai away from exports to other high-growth markets to meet domestic demand. Picture taken October 4, 2012. To match Analysis HYUNDAI-CAPACITY/         REUTERS/Babu (INDIA - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS) - GM1E8BC06N601

Could manufacturing help India become the next global economic powerhouse? Image: REUTERS/Babu

Suchi Kedia
Community Specialist, Regional Agenda - India and South Asia, World Economic Forum
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