Web Standards & Indian Web Designers

I believe the statistics presented here are not very valid because of the small sample size. However, being an Indian and having seen how the software business currently works in India, I would not be surprised if this were the case even if a larger sample size is used. The common sentiment in India is to "get it done as fast as possible". People learn programming practices (sometimes bad) mostly from co-workers instead of from books or through their own research. This tends to keep the bad habits going. The focus is on getting things done and out the door instead of quality or standards compliance. Unless a client insists on standards compliance, the web designers are probably not going to conciously include it.

while the efforts from the companies that claim to be doing web design are still so 97ish. The adoption of new trends has always been slow from these companies. And the individuals seems to be too few to make an impact at this moment. The lack of strict guidelines or laws even for the government sites shows the total lack of awareness and the need for better standards.

Reasons are many,
There is a lack of support or understanding from the people involved in decision making
Either the self proclaimed designers are too lazy do not want to adapt
Lack of laws, education, event and so on..

Glad at least individuals are moving things forward.

hopefully things will get better.