[김문영의 ‘미래G2’ 인도경제 돋보기]Indian culture of donation as opposed to China

[김문영 KOTRA 서남아지역 본부장] “Azim Premji.”

It is the third largest donor in the world after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. He is the owner of Wipro, a global IT services company called Tzar in the Indian IT industry. Last year, $ 11 billion was added to the Corona Response Fund this year. It is said to the public for the frequent use of cheap seats and rickshaws for ordinary people.

“The Tata Group.”

As a 170-year-old Parsi-based company, it is India’s number one entrepreneurial group respected by the nickname of private government. A group of Iranian immigrants who settled in the coastal area of ​​northwestern India between the 8th and 10th centuries to defend the beliefs of the native Baehwa religion (Zorastrianism) against the Islamic forces landed in Parsi, currently 60,000 people, Tata groups , Godrej, Wadia and Cyrus Refers to the most successful ethnic minority group in the world due to their passion for higher education.

Led by TCS (Tata Consulting Service), the No. 1 valued in the market with over 100 billion dollars, has more than 100 companies including steel, automobiles, chemicals and energy. The owner of the Tata group is not the Tata family, but a 66% owned charity fund (Dorabji Tata Trust, Ratan Tata Trust). It has made a great contribution to the modernization of India such as education, health and research as well as industry, and has supported nearly 300 billion won in various crown-related health and care fields after April this year. .

“NR Narayanan Murthy”

He is the co-founder of India’s IT Servce Dinosaur Infosys, which employs 200,000 people with a turnover of $ 10 billion. Seven people, myself included, started as their wives’ wedding mortgage in 1981 and, even after answering a call, hand-drive a 1000cc compact car to a 20-pyeong apartment in Bengaluru at the beginning of the year. activity is a representative story of the Indian computer industry.

India’s third largest IT company, HCL Technology’s Shiv Naddar with 130 billion won, Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man with 80 billion won, and Indian merchant representative Marwari of Aditiya Birla Group’s Birla from 47 billion won, the number of donors of more than 2 billion won in India last year reached 120. Reach. It is not a one-time donation, but an annual donation.

Prime Minister CARES fund, which was opened in late March as an opportunity to spread the crown in India, has been a great help in preparing the initial infrastructure of the crown with a donation of over 500 billion won in one week. .

Sure, it’s a large country with a population of 1.4 billion, but the gap between rich and poor is still very large with a per capita national income of $ 2,000, and the interior and exterior of the apartment complex. it’s a different world. With a personal income tax of only 3%, finances and infrastructure are insufficient.

America is a leader in the world culture of giving. It is known that over 2% of GDP is donated in a context of transparency in the management of funds, tax advantages, social and Christian respect.

On the other hand, the donation of China, which has a national per capita income five times that of India, has recently come with pioneers like Alibaba’s Ma Yun and group chairman Hengda Xu Jamin, but is still around 0. , 1% of GDP.

Why is the culture of giving established in India, where there are so many resources and conditions? Many people present the caste merchant culture in the Indian subcontinent that has been passed down for thousands of years, the religion of coexistence and harmony and cultural traditions. Money is the best value to pursue, but through thousands of years of experience, we know the roots of money and look forward to a better reincarnation in the future.

The Parsi fleet arrived on the coast of Gujarat province in northwestern India to escape Islamic religious persecution in Persia more than 1,200 years ago. When the king’s messenger presented the glass full of milk as a sign of impossibility, the land of India with the wisdom of the elder Parsi and the king’s repression to add sugar and not overflow the glass like this sugar, but to add harmony with you. Established in.

Despite being very few ethnic groups around 60,000 now, they have produced national corporations like Tata and Godrej, world leaders like Zubin Mehta and the father of Indian nuclear power. They return silver for the silver they received.

Moonyoung Kim Head of Southwest Asia, KOTRA