New Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s effort on Monday to reach out to youth to know their vision of Vikshit Bharat @2047 is one of the several initiatives his government has taken over more than two years to compile a roadmap for making India a developed country when it turns 100.
The Niti Aayog is supposed to come up with an outcome-oriented vision document for making the country developed, which its CEO BVR Subrahmanyam had promised earlier that it would be made public this month. The government’s think tank is taking a ten sectoral thematic visions approach to flag issues that need urgent fundamental and structural reforms, in many cases, for the country to walk on the path from being a developing to a developed nation. For that to happen, ten sectoral groups of secretaries (SGoS) from various ministries were created to draf their invidividual vision documents, Subrahmanyam had stated .
businessline had reported in May that Niti Aayog had identified areas like micro, small and medium enterprises, infrastructure and investments, minimising compliance, women empowerment, health and nutrition, skill development and Gati Shakti for area development and social infrastructure to work on. The NITI Aayog, in a meeting of its governing council in May, which was chaired by Prime Minister, had urged the states and union territories to work like Team India to achieve the developmental goals.
The Niti Aayog also believes that India will have $30 trillion economy in 2047, having a per capita GDP of $17,590. As of now, it’s the fifth largest economy after the US, China, Japan and Germany. The Niti Aayog has been having extensive consultations with experts, institutions, and people on the issues chosen to compile the vision document, with every sector having its vision which then would form the basis for putting main Vikshit Bharat document. The initial work began on guidance notes, common economic parameters and projections shared by the Ministry of Finance.