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India – The Emerging In the last few decades, India’s science and technological growth has been marching on
supreme heights which ensured rapid growth of the nation in every walk of life. Thus
the slumbering lion is now slowly awakening to realise its true potential. Today, under
Superpower a steady government, India is marching ahead towards great success and emerging as a
superpower in the world. Different nations across the globe are now lining in serpentine
queues in front of ISRO for launching their satellites using our technology- indigenously
developed, after having emerged as being the most economical in the world. Technological
advancement of the nation has contributed to every walk of life- from space technology to
military movements and from agriculture to medicinal research, science and technology is
on an unparalleled march. The current time indisputably is the most promising segment
in independent India’s history. Truly, ancient wisdom is indeed finding its way back.

This was the humble dream shared by the great visionary- Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam who had
set forth in front of the nation his ‘Vision India 20-20’. The former President is no more with
us in his mortal form. But the spirit, zeal, enthusiasm, steadfastness and genuineness he
has induced in each one of us has ignited the minds of millions of Indian citizens with his
vision of making India a developed nation by the year 2020 AD. Dr. Kalam once remarked,
“I will keep the lamp of knowledge burning to achieve the vision - Developed India. If we
work and sweat for the great vision with ignited minds, the transformation leading to birth
of vibrant developed India will happen”.

Such ignited minds can make ours a welfare state that ensures freedom, basic amenities
and equal opportunities to all sections of the society. The dynamics of development
outlined by this great seer and nationalist, envisages how right developmental patterns
will enable successful connectivity between India and the rest of world. These deductions
made by the ‘Missile Man of India’ have not been a fanciful calculation, but have been the
result of careful analysis and observances.

Dr. Kalam was of the opinion that developed countries must ensure marketing of their
products in a competitive way, in order to maintain the status. A developing country
on the other hand must market products bearing in mind quality of the products, cost-
effectiveness and precision of time in terms of supply, in order to forge its way towards
success.

By observing these dynamics, India can well be transformed to a developed state by
2020, using technology as tool. And with an obviously swelling economy, study and
competent internal market, India is obviously destined to make competitive products using
technological innovations.

Some of the core areas specified for India’s development are software, pharma products,
emergence of steel technology, space technology and defense systems forging into the
international arena all the way from India. The initiatives taken in solar farming to
generate energy, desalination plants to generate drinking water will soon be mission mode
programmes offering a large business in India and outside.

Today, India has given priority to state-funded research in areas like biotechnology,
pharmaceuticals and automobile manufacturing with the participation of private sector.
Prime Minister has waved the green flag in exploring the feasibility of setting up research
institutes in these fields with the aid of private firms. This is a comprehensive step towards
the setting up of institutions that capacitate research, with innovation being a global wave.

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