''India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium'' is a book, written by the 11th

President of India The president of India ( IAST: ) is the head of state of the Republic of India. The president is the nominal head of the executive, the first citizen of the country, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces. Droupadi Murmu ...

A P J Abdul Kalam Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (; 15 October 193127 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied phy ...

and

Y. S. Rajan Yagnaswami Sundara Rajan or Y. S. Rajan (born 10 April 1943) is an Indian professor, scientist and administrator. He is Honorary Distinguished Professor in Indian Space Research Organisation. He has made major contributions to various aspects o ...

. The book was written by the duo in the year 1998, before Kalam's tenure as President. It talks about Kalam's ideas for India's future and for developing India.

Overview

The book examines in depth the weaknesses and strengths of

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

, and offers a vision of how India can emerge to be among the world's top four economic powers by the year 2020. The Vision is dedicated to a ten-year-old girl whom Kalam met during one of his talks and asked her about her ambitions, to which the young girl replied, "I want to live in a developed India." In his book ''India 2020,'' Kalam strongly advocates an action plan to develop India into a strong nation by the year 2020. He regards his nation as a knowledge superpower and developed nation. The book describes the present and future scenario in India and

developed countries A developed country (or industrialized country, high-income country, more economically developed country (MEDC), advanced country) is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy and advanced technological infrastruct ...

. It compares the various statistical data and explains how India can improve it. Kalam explains the importance of

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

and

technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in medicine, science, ...

for the development of India. In chapter 1 of the book the authors stress the importance of a vision for India, using nations like US,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

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, and

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as examples. However, they also point out that this vision should be original, rather than imitating other nations. In the book, Kalam had also said that it should be the dream of all the citizens to see India as a developed country.

Reception

According to ''

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'', "Seldom does one, in these troubled times, see such a lucid marshaling of facts and figures to bolster the thesis that India is mere two decades away from super-power status". ''The Statesman'' reviewed the book as, "A book of revelation in a plain wrapper". The book has been translated into multiple languages.

Chapters

The book has about 344 pages which are divided into 13 chapters. # Can India Become a Developed Country?yes # What other countries Envision for Themselves # Evolution of Technology Vision 2020 # Food, Agriculture and Processing #Materials and the Future # Chemicals Industries and Our Biological Wealth400 # Manufacturing for the Future # Services as People's Wealth 50 # Strategic Industries # Health Care for All # The Enabling Infrastructure # Realizing the Vision # Response towards India 2020

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