INDIA IN 2020

Vision Of A Prosperous India
Where The Mind Is Without Fear
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Kuchh Door Kuchh Pass
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Jaise
My India Your’s Bharat And
All Of Hindustan!

Vinod Banger

India and Peace

With the advent of the new era in India on 15th August 1947, there was a great hue and cry about what course should India take to make its presence felt in the international arena. India decided not to join the blocs that divide the two edges of the earth.

This was a turning point. The third world countries actually accepted the leadership of our country as a method to move out of the turmoil created by the two world powers. The organization of NON ALIGNMENT MOVEMENT made our stance very clear, that was to enhance peace and harmony in the world. Another step was not to sign the NATO that would have resulted in accepting the military slavery of the United States.

There are actually many instances where India actually demonstrated the capabilities of a world leader. One extra ordinary instance is that of 1971 war with Pakistan where after being into a position of running over the latter, it actually decided to respect the ceasefire called by the UNITED NATIONS. India also helped Bangladesh gain stability, politically and economically after the war. It was the greatness on the part of India to help settle lacks of immigrants from East Bengal.

Year 2020

By 2020, India will not only become a permanent member of Security Council but will also play a crucial role in bringing peace and stability in the war torn countries like the Afghanistan, Bangladesh, etc. It will actually show the world that the path of non-violence can be used effectively in promoting peace.

India and Women Empowerment

India was always seen as a country where the women had a lower position to male. But it was only after the Mughal came to India. Before that it was only in India where women were seen to be the incarnation of deities. They had the same status in the Aryan period as men.

Somebody has aptly put it that if a nation cannot respect its women it cannot actually progress. India has shown the world that the traits of Indians are such that the respect and honour for the women are not alien to them. Right from the time of Rani Lakshmibai to Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Willams, Indians have never felt hesitant to respect their better halves in any field that they have progressed. The likes of Indra Nooyi, Chanda Kochhar are the examples that bear the testimony to the fact that we have utmost respect for the fairer sex. Even if somebody doubts us on the basis of divorce rates, rape cases female foeticide, it will be actually be kind of them to look into the statics of the countries like the US and UK where such activities are much higher in percentage than in India. Leaving aside all the above examples, haven’t we progressed enough according to the standard of the United States where there has been no women president but we a country just as a 60 year old has a women, Mrs.Pratibha Patil on the highest seat of authority? The question does need a deep thinking!

Year 2020

No doubt 2020 will actually witness young women leading the best corporate houses in India as the shackles of being a conservative nation and the tag of the country with Ghoonghat clad women have already started to vanish. The education actually will lead women to be self-dependent and may be way ahead of males in every field. The testimony to this is that even the women have been allowed for the place in the combat army functions.

Tourism in India 2020

According to World Tourism Organization estimates, India will lead in South Asia with 8.9 million arrivals by 2020. India is poised to emerge as the 2nd fastest growing (8.8%) tourism economy in the world over 2005-14 according to the World Travel & Tourism.

There has been a growth of more than 13% in foreign tourist arrivals at 3.9 million during 2008, up from 3.4 million foreign tourists who visited India during previous year. Foreign exchange earnings from foreign tourists will be more than 20% at $5,730.86 million in 2008, up from $4,769 million earned the previous year.

Indian air travel to grow 20% each year for the next 5 years. Government and private operators will invest $20 billion in aircraft and infrastructure over the next five years. Air India will be adding 680 aircraft to its present fleet, Indian Airlines 430 and private airlines around 275.

By 2020, Indian airports will be handling between 90 and 100 million passengers (59 million domestic & 45 million international passengers)

Metro Airports

DELHI & MUMBAI

Greenfield Airports

HYDERABAD AND BANGALORE

Regional Airports and State Owned 35 Non-Metro Airports for Modernization

Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Agatti, Aurangabad, Agartala, Agra, Baroda, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Dimapur, Goa (Dabolim), Guwahati, Imphal, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Khajuraho, Lucknow , Madurai, Mangalore ,Nagpur, Patna, Port Blair, Pune, Rajkot, Ranchi, Raipur, Tricky, Trivandrum, Udaipur, Visakhapatnam, Varanasi.

Trade in 2020

India will be one of the world's largest diamond cutting and polishing centres, its exports are worth $6 Billion in 2020. About 9 out of 10 diamond stones sold anywhere in the world, pass through India.

The country's foreign exchange reserves will go at an all-time high of $120 Billion. The largest Indian Companies gets 70% of its $1 billion revenue from overseas operations and 40% from USA.

New emerging industries areas include Bio-Informatics, Bio-Technology, Genomics, Clinical Research and Trials.

The world's major Automobile makers will obtain components from Indian companies.

American employers in India:

2020 Estimated
General Electric 54,400 employees
Hewlett-Packard 41,000 employees
IBM 27,000 employees
American Express 20,000 employees
Dell 17,000 employees

Indians in the USA in 2020

54% of doctors in the USA
41% of NASA scientists
44% of Microsoft employees
36% of IBM employees
27% of INTEL scientists

India's GDP will reach $ 1 trillion by 2011, $ 2 trillion by 2020 becoming the 3rd largest economy after USA and China.

Leader in Population

India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2050.India’s population is expected to grow from 1.08bn to 1.63bn people, overtaking China, which is forecast to reach 1.44bn from 1.3bn currently. India will also have the highest working population in the World —700 million people out of 1.1 billion people are young; the young population will continue till 2050. The present rate of population growth is 1.6 percent. It is imperative to bring it down to one percent by 2020-2025.

National Solar Mission 2020

India has set itself a very ambitious solar plan. The National Solar Mission is quite popularly known as Mission 2020.

A project involving $19 billion. Spread over 30 years, its goal is to achieve solar power generation of 20GW by 2020.

A three phase plan: 1-1.5 GW by 2012, 6-7 GW by 2017 and the rest by 2020.

Aims to reduce production costs of solar panels and drive domestic manufacturing. Funds marked to motivate production, installation and R&D.

“Near term” target of 100 MW and long-term target of 100 GW by 2030 or 10%-12% of total power generation capacity projected for that year.

Around 20 million solar lights would be set up by 2020 thereby saving 1 billion liters of kerosene per year.

It would be made mandatory for hospitals, hotels and government buildings to have solar-powered equipment and applications.

Villages and small towns will also be encouraged to do so with micro financing.

India will promote solar heating systems and utilize 40-50 million sq. m of area to install solar collectors in domestic, industrial and commercial sectors.

3 million households would get lighting access through solar power by 2012.

Thus, Mission 2020 can very well bring about an energy revolution in India.

Space Vision India 2020

Human Space Flight Mission Programmer

Proposal for a management plan for Human Spaceflight Program (HSP) is prepared and pre-project activities are approved. The program envisages development of a fully autonomous orbital vehicle carrying two or three crew members to about 300 km low earth orbit and their safe return. It is planned to realize the programed in 2015-16 time frame.

Chandrayaan-2

Chandrayaan-2 mission is planned to have an orbiter/lander/rover configuration. The mission is expected to be realized before 2020. The science goals of the mission is to further improve our understanding of origin and evolution of the Moon using instruments onboard Orbiter and in-situ analysis of lunar samples and studies of lunar regolith properties (remote & direct analysis) using Robots/Rovers.

Aditya-1

The First Indian space based Solar Coronagraph to study solar Corona in visible and near IR bands. Launch of the Aditya mission is planned during the next high solar activity period ~ 2012. The main objectives are to study the Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) and consequently the crucial physical parameters for space weather such as the coronal magnetic field structures, evolution of the coronal magnetic field etc. This will provide completely new information on the velocity fields and their variability in the inner corona having an important bearing on the unsolved problem of heating of the corona would be obtained.