Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been a major driver of industrial development in India. Maharashtra, home to Pune and other automotive clusters, has attracted a large share of FDI and hosts major OEMs and component firms. This paper examines the social impacts of FDI in the automobile sector in Maharashtra — focusing on employment, skill formation, urbanization and social infrastructure, income distribution, gender effects, and environmental/social displacement. The study uses official FDI statistics, industry reports, and cluster studies and complements them with original tables and charts created for this paper.
Suryawanshi et al. (Sat,) studied this question.