The India Vision 2020 exercise was a major national effort to look at the future prospects for India involving about 5000 experts.

The good news is that India, given its crore strengths , can grow fast and become a developed country within  20 years, by 2020. No doubt to achieve it various major players like governments, investors, economists, administrators, business persons etc have to change the existing  methods of 'slow working'. India’s energies have to be unleashed. I hope ( and  pray to God) that it will happen soon. In the meanwhile ordinary citizens should not give up. Let us gear up  ourselves to do something. We can achieve in capturing new business opportunities,  knowledge opportunities etc. 

Let the young persons focus on equipping themselves with new skills required for the global competition.  Opportunities are not only in science and technology, medicine or business  management. But also in other disciplines. The focus should be on markets  and marketability of your skills. Also mobility is another key word. You should be able to switch jobs. You  should be ready to travel and to move out of your existing patterns of works. You should be ready to risk, to be entrepreneurs. You should not be  afraid of change. You should prepare yourselves for a change with newer  skills and newer methods of working.

While new technologies like IT, Bio technology, Nan technology or Advanced  Manufacturing are all important, it is not necessary that you have to work  in their narrow confines. Modern technologies pervade all fields; impact all  fields. In the present day world, the traditional barriers of  Agriculture, Manufacturing or services are fast merging. In the medical field, you will find so many equipments and machines and so much of electronics and computing. 

Modern agricultural practices will require  extensive soil testing with advanced electronic tools. Cleanliness will require  many milking equipment, coolers at the places where cows and buffaloes are  advanced bacteria counting equipment. At the same time one should not think these alone can save India. Bulk of Indians are poor. They don’t have money to acquire new skills or invest on  new technologies. However since they are mostly in low productivity  agriculture and related services, it is possible to rise them up too with right type of market oriented actions and value additions. I had been fortunate to take many such fairly large scale actions in Bihar, U.P.,  Uttaranchal, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and may other parts. It requires lots of  attention to detail. Not a uniform solution… But customised attention to  actions.

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