name targets to be acheived by India in year 2020 mentioned by Dr.A.P.J Abudal kalam in his book vision2020?

Answer 1

why don't u try google or wikipedia u r bound to find ur answer, its a famous book, but sorry i haven't read it.

Answer 2

There are lots including education to all, agricultural benifits to be extended fully to the farmers etc.,
Why don't you read the book and decide which one you are going to influence to improve?

Answer 3

Here are the main ones:
1. Can India become a developed country? 2. What other countries envision for themselves. 3. Evolution of technology vision 2020. 4. Food, agriculture and processing. 5. Materials and the future. 6. Chemical industries and our biological wealth. 7. Manufacturing for the future. 8. Services as people's wealth. 9. Strategic industries. 10. Health care for all. 11. The enabling infrastructure. 12. Realizing the vision. "


"Our Prime Minister, in his Independence Day address on 15th August 2002 announced that India would become a 'developed' nation by 2020. The National Development Council has since approved the 10th Five Year Plan with an economic growth rate of 8 per cent. It is equally gratifying that a task team has been formed by the government for networking of rivers to transfer water from our surplus basins to areas of deficit. Considerable care, I am sure, will be taken about the environment and people related issues.

I am also sure that our Parliament, which is celebrating its golden jubilee, will discuss and evolve action plans for our vision of transforming India into a 'developed' nation by 2020.

During the last century, the world underwent a change from agriculture society, where manual labour was the critical factor, to industrial society where the management of technology, capital and labour provided the competitive advantage.

Then the information era was born, where connectivity and software products drove a part of the economy of a few nations including our country. In the 21st century, a new society is emerging where knowledge is the primary production resource instead of capital and labour. Efficient utilisation of this existing knowledge can create comprehensive wealth for the nations and also improve the quality of life - in the form of better health, education, infrastructure and other social indicators.

Ability to create and maintain the knowledge infrastructure, develop knowledge workers and enhance their productivity through creation, growth and exploitation of new knowledge will be the key factors in deciding the prosperity of this knowledge society. Whether a nation has arrived at the state of knowledge society is judged by the way the country effectively deals with knowledge creation and knowledge deployment in all sectors like it, industries, agriculture, health care etc.

It is the right time for India to embark upon the second green revolution which will enable it to increase its productivity in the agricultural sector. The production of cereals needs to increase from the present 200 million tonnes to over 300 million tonnes by 2020 in view of population growth.

But the requirement of land for the increasing population as well as for greater afforestation and environmental preservation activities would demand that the present 170 million hectares of arable land will have to be brought down to 100 million hectares by 2020. All our agricultural scientists and technologists have to work for doubling the productivity of the available land with lesser area being available for cultivation.

The type of technologies needed would be in the areas of biotechnology, proper training to the farmers, additional modern equipment for preservation and storage etc. The second green revolution is indeed graduating from grain production to food processing and marketing as visualised by the late Shri C Subramaniam. While doing so, utmost care should be taken for various environmental and people related aspects leading to sustainable development.

More than two-thirds of our billion population live in the rural parts of India. The vision of transformation to a 'developed' India can only be realised if we launch a mega mission for empowering the rural people.

My visits to the rural parts of India have confirmed that the problem of rural India depends on the extent of connectivity available there. The connectivity that I refer to, would include four components. Physical connectivity by providing roads in rural areas, electronic connectivity by providing reliable communication network and knowledge connectivity by establishing more professionial institutions and vocational training centres.

Schools with best infrastructure and teachers who love teaching, primary health centres, silos for storage of products and markets for promoting cottage industries and business, employment opportunities for artisans are some of the elements of PURA. All this connectivity needs to be done in an integrated way so that economic connectivity will emerge leading to self actuating people and economy.

Such model of establishing a circular connectivity among the rural village complexes will accelerate rural development process by empowerment. I am sure that removal of poverty will call for providing urban amenities in rural areas (PURA). The model envisaged is a habitat design that would improve the quality of life in rural places and make special suggestions to remove urban congestion also. Instead of village population coming to urban areas the reverse phenomenon has to take place.

PURA has to be a business proposition economically viable and managed by entrepreneurs and local people and small-scale industrialists, as it involves education, health, power generation, transport and management. Government's support should be in the form of empowering such management agencies, providing initial economic support and finding the right type of management structure and leaders to manage and maintain.

What type of scenario will be there in India in the coming decades? As we are crossing the information society and leading to knowledge society, irrespective of rural or urban area, distance will be shortened using information technology. In such a situation an electronic connectivity should emerge between the various state and central government departments for fully committed transparent administration.

A networked database with real time updated data exchange will ensure speedy service to the people under one roof for all their government/non-government service requirement. Transparency will have to emerge in governance.

Wherever I have been, I have seen that people definitely want to live in a prosperous India. In the rural areas, when I visited primary schools, they wanted high schools, when I visited high schools they wanted colleges, when I visited colleges they wanted professional colleges. The right type of higher education has become an essentiality from both the students' and parents' points of view. However, scarcity of good teachers is visible everywhere. Good teaching and interactive teaching are possible through tele-education and inspired teachers.

Healthcare facilities for rural and remote villages can be provided by mobile clinics. This is one example of extending the available limited facilities to more and more rural people. Both the Centre and the state governments should encourage such mobile diagnostic and treatment clinics in rural areas on priority.

Dear citizens, I would like to conclude with a mission statement: India can become a developed nation only if everyone contributes to the best of his or her ability and capacity. The mission is: in transforming India into a developed nation by 2020, what can be the role of every citizen in addition to the governmental initiatives of launching programmes for the vision of a developed India.

I have already explained that there has to be integrated development programmes with empowered management structure. In addition, I would like to suggest various missions for our people. For example, the student community can take up the task, during holidays to make a certain number of people literate in their area where their schools or houses are situated. Only a burning candle can light another. Teachers and parents can assist them in this task. The government and R&D laboratories can provide technological upgradation to our small-scale industries so that production can be increased and be competitive.

The youth would need to aspire for entrepreneurship rather than conventional employment. Large-scale industries have to increase their contribution to economic growth, particularly growth of GDP. Here, industries can concentrate on maximum output and cost effective products, so that demand will increase. They can aim at becoming multinational companies, for example in the areas of sugar and agricultural products, power, cement, manufacturing and knowledge product institutions.

The farming community, with advanced water conservation and management methods, has to increase their productivity. The information technology and knowledge workers have got a tremendous responsibility to contribute in the areas of tele-medicine, tele-education and e-governance for rural areas apart from their business role.

In this vision period, the whole government agency has to build a name for itself, by fast decision-making and transparent administration. Media should become a partner and promoter critic in national development. This type of dynamic environment with motivation will indeed be a great foundation for our vision of transforming India into a 'developed' nation by 2020."