10 things going for India2047

India has set about a bold Mission2047 plan which apart from other things will make India a tech and economic superpower. It shows great promise even though things may not be as fast as some would like.
1. Physical infrastructure in place: You cannot build an online world without the foundations of the offline. India is forging ahead with a record number of roads, flyovers, toilets etc apart from adding bank accounts and gas connections.
2. Digital infrastructure going places: Aadhaar is the world’s largest democratic identity project. The JAM (Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile) trinity is transforming lives. UPI is a global superstar. The future looks exciting.
3. Demographic dividend: India is the most populous country in the world. For some time in the future, it will have the largest youth and working population. With the base that has been created, this is the ultimate opportunity to go all the way.
4. A gung-ho youth: American youth seem to be busy with climate-global politics and agitations on campuses. Chinese youth are following Tan ping (lie down flat), rejecting overwork and overachievement. Indian youth in contrast seem to be the most ambitious and hard working among their global peers.
5. Educational infrastructure: There’s the New Education Policy and we are bringing out educational institutes at a record rate. There is focus on AI, R&D along with partnerships with the industry.
6. Thriving through crises: India countered the 1990-91 economic crisis with Liberalisation. The Y2K crisis led to us becoming an IT services superpower. The AIDS crisis after that made us the drug factory of the developed world. More recently during Covid when all seemed lost, we did a tech upgrade and readied ourselves for the future. You can be sure that if an unknown crisis comes tomorrow, we will be ready to handle it.
7. The rise of Tier-2/3: The smartphone revolution reached all Indian villages and after the Covid crisis talent migrated to Tier-2/3 towns with all the necessary upgrades.
8. A multi-polar world: With the decline of America and a China that may never match the superpower status of its predecessors the future is multi-polar. India will most likely be a big power in that multi-polarity. That’s a geopolitical situation which suits us because we believe more in cooperation rather than domination. 
9. The economy: About a decade back we entered the Top 10 GDPs of the world. In a few years we will be third, just behind America and China. We will likely be the fastest growing and most promising among the Big 3.
10. Overall hope: One grew up with cynicism about India all the time, but now there is great ambition and hope. It’s a nation’s will that matters most in the end.