“I import from China and assembly here”: Chankar Sharma’s visit to the poor Mumbai is a defect in the India factory

Veteran investor Shankar Sharma believed that he had found a sign of the high manufacturing in India-a blurred workshop in Mumbai gym with coating at the catalog level.

“We are on the threshold of the manufacturing boom,” he remembers. But optimism faded quickly.

“I asked,” can you really make me this? “Sharma wrote on x.” He said: “Sir, I import from China and collect it here. Its quality, the end, it looks, it is simply unacceptable.”

The stock exchange, although it is simple, has made a realistic fact: even at the popular rule, Indian manufacturing is often a sign of the Chinese offer. Sharma called it a “true story of yesterday”. For many, it’s today’s story – the reason that the dream of “China +1” is still on hand.

Many users responded to Sharma’s participation with a similar sense of resignation. “I think the time has come for the world to change their hostile approach in China. Just accept it. They have overcome everyone.” Another added, “We cannot even make daily elements such as Cleibers nails, luggage, or bathroom that weighs standards to the quality of China.

The Sharma Publication comes at a time when India is widely seen as a potential alternative to China in global supply chains – a narration that has gained momentum during the epidemic and has been more accelerated by the trade war between the United States. With the tariff of the United States on Chinese exports now up to 145 %, India that is transferred under the rules of new mutual duty, the moment appears to be a mature transformation. But the reality of the Earth is still more complicated.

Experts say that one of the main barriers on the road lies in the organizational maze in India. A study conducted by Prosperiti, mentioned in the Economic Survey 2023-24, reveals how restra up construction regulations – from setbacks and car parking states to land area ratios – forced factories to give up huge parts of useless lands. In some states, small factories were said to lose up to 90 % of the conspiracy space just to comply with building laws, making effective manufacturing almost impossible.

Compared to countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong, or even the Philippines, where industrial lands are used more effectively, Indian manufacturers remain trapped – literally and structurally.

The survey notes that opening manufacturing growth will not only require incentives or capital, but the dangerous repair in how to organize lands and allows factories to expand. Until then, as the Sherma Glory Meeting in Mumbai’s slum shows, factories in India may continue to build dreams on Chinese parts.