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VISION 2020

VISION 2020

VISION 2020

India 2020 will be bustling with energy, entrepreneurship and innovation. The countrys 1.35 billion people will be better fed, dressed and housed, taller and healthier, more educated and longer living than any generation in the countrys long history. A second productivity revolution in Indian agriculture will stimulate demand for consumer goods and services, giving a fillip to the urban economy and the informal sector as well as rapid expansion of the services sector. Diversification from IT to biotechnology, medical sciences and other emerging fields of technology, would widen the field of Indias international competitiveness. These developments will ensure jobs for all by 2020. Inequalities between different age groups, the sexes, income groups, communities and regions will come down dramatically. Indias achievements will be fuelled by the realisation that the progress of the whole ultimately depends on the progress of its weakest links. The increasingly congested urban traffic will be motorised as never before. Cell phones, computers and the Internet will permeate every aspect of life and every corner of the country. Computerisation of education will dramatically improve the quality of instruction and the pace of learning, so that many students will complete the first twelve years of school curriculum in as little as eight. Computerised distance education will catch on in a big way and enable tens of thousands more students to opt for affordable higher education. Urban air pollution will come under control by strict enforcement of motor vehicle emission standards and widespread use of ethanol blended motor fuels. A massive afforestation programme will reverse the depletion of forest areas, raise the nations Green cover to 33 per cent of area, generate millions of rural employment opportunities, and provide abundant renewable energy from biomass power production. Rising levels of education, employment and income will help stabilise Indias internal security and social environment. A more prosperous India in 2020 will be characterised by a better-educated electorate and more transparent, accountable, efficient and decentralised government. Excerpted from India Vision 2020 report prepared by the Planning Commission of India. To access the complete Vision 2020 document, please log on to http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/genrep/pl_vsn2020.pdf