Last month, on a visit to a machinery factory near Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong province, I saw what seemed to be an unseemly number of cars - probably over 60 - parked in and around a complex that, at best, employs 100 workers at full capacity. The explanation given was that most workers drive to the factory.
Cars parked at an average Indian factory overwhelmingly belong to the managerial class - owners, senior executives and managers overseeing production and assuring quality. Wages of the average Indian factory worker are too low to afford a 4-wheeler.
