At a small factory just north of Delhi, a welder named Ram Baran spends each day training his coworkers in metal cutting, molding, and shaping bodies of three-wheeler electric vehicles. Baran is not an engineer by education. He started working at the factory in 2017 as a helper — dusting, cleaning, and organizing items. A year later, he got the opportunity to upskill and get trained in welding by Chinese engineers. Nearly 80% of Baran’s 200 co-workers have followed a similar trajectory. “[They] ...