- To guarantee nutrition security and eliminate female and child anemia.
- To ensure the quality and quantity of water in all rivers and other aquatic bodies.
- To develop commercially viable and decentralized distribution of energy for all.
- To provide learner centric language neutral and holistic education for all.
- To secure critical resources commensurate with the size of India.
- To make India non-fossil fuel based economy.
- To ensure Universal eco-friendly waste management system.
- To take the railways to Leh and Tawang.
- To understand the national climate patterns and ensure adaption to them.
- To ensure location independent electoral and financial empowerment.
Classification of Technologies in vision document 2035
- Technology Leadership: niche technologies in which India has core competencies, skilled manpower, infrastructure and a traditional knowledge base such as Nuclear Energy, Space Science.
- Technology Independence: strategic technologies that India will have to develop on its own as they may not be obtainable from elsewhere such as the Defence sector.
- Technology Innovation: link the disparate technologies together or make a breakthrough in one technology and apply it to another such as solar cells patterned on chlorophyll based synthetic pathway can be a potent future source of renewable energy.
- Technology Adoption: obtain new technologies from elsewhere, and modify them as per the local needs and reduce dependence on other sources, for example, foreign collaboration in the sectors such as rainwater harvesting, agri-biotech, desalination, energy efficient buildings etc.
- Technology Constraints: the areas where technology is threatening and problematic i.e. having a negative social or environmental impact because of serious legal and ethical issues, for example, the Genetically Modified(GM) Crops.
Call to action
The vision document gives the following ‘Call to Action’ to all the key stakeholders for long term sustainability of India’s technological prowess:
- Technical education institutions are to be engaged in large scale advanced research for path-breaking innovations.
- Government should increase its financial support from current 1% to 2% of GDP.
- Increase the number of full time equivalent scientists engaged in core research sector.
- Private sector participation in investment and technologies which are readily deployable from lab to field for increasing efficiency in terms of Technology and economic returns.
- Academy intelligentsia industry connection to be established through idea exchange, innovative curricular design based on the needs of the industrial sector, and through industry sponsored student internships and research fellowships.
- Creation of research ecosystem for achieving translation of research technology to product/ processes by integrating students, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
