PURA – A Technological Challenge for Sustainable Rural Development Telecom Internet e-Governance Tele-medicine Tele-education Ring Road Rail Public Infrastructure Mobile clinic PHYSICAL CONNECTIVITY ECONOMIC CONNECTIVITY PURA Warehouse Agro Industries Markets Hospital Micro Power plant ELECTRONIC CONNECTIVITY KNOWLEDGE CONNECTIVITY Enlightened Citizenship Moral Leadership Schools / Hospitals IRS Imagery for - Land & Crop Mgmt. - Water Mgmt. - Forest Mgmt. - Environment Proactive Health care Coop. Product Mktg. JOINT PRIVATE – PUBLIC EMPOWERED BODIES 10-15 Village Clusters 100 Crore investment Business Proposition Employment for 3000 persons Beneficiaries: 30,000 people www.presidentofindia.nic.in

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Development & Leadership-Connectivity Developed India Economic Strength, Competitiveness, Knowledge Power & Technology Return on Investment, Revenues, Scalability & Deploy ability, Quality & Value Employee Productivity, Loyalty & Satisfaction, Working Environment Effective Governance & Empowered Management Creative Leadership “Creative leadership is exercising the vision to change the traditional roles from commander to coach, from manager to mentor, from director to delegator and from one who demands respect to one who facilitates self respect.” www.presidentofindia.nic.in

INDIAMILLENNIUM VISION, MISSION & GOALS MISSION PROJECTS DESIRED GOALS CORE STRENGTHS TECHNOLOGY GENERATORS TECHNOLOGY VISION 2020 NATURAL RESOURCES Vast Coastline Minerals Biodiversity Food, Health & Social Security MISSION PROJECTS Value Addition C I V I L I S A T I O N A L H E R I TA G E DEVELOPED INDIA 2020 INDIAMILLENNIUM Economic Prosperity HUMAN RESOURCES Traditional Knowledge Knowledge Intensive Org. Services 1.10 Vision, Mission & Goals   We have so far considered the profile of knowledge society, multiple components and system integration. It emerged from the deliberations of the task force that the core strengths of the nation have to be coupled to the desired goals. The nation’s strengths predominantly reside in its natural and human resources. In natural resources, India is endowed with a vast coast-line with marine resources and also oil wealth. In minerals, apart from conventional material resources, it is well-known that India has the largest deposits of titanium, beryllium and tungsten. India ranks among the top few nations having a rich bio-diversity. Particularly, in the herbal area there are potential applications for developing multiple products for nutrition, prevention and cure of diseases. Of the global herbal product market of US$ 61 billion, China has a share of around US $ 3 billion, whereas India’s share is not even US $ 100 million. Hence, there is tremendous opportunity for growth in this area. India has similar potential for promoting floriculture and aquaculture in a big way. Knowledge-based value addition for these natural resources would mean exporting value-added products rather than merely the raw materials. Use of IT for commercialisation and marketing can increase our outreach and speed enormously. Ancient knowledge is a unique resource of India for it has the treasure of a minimum of 5000 years of civilisation. It is essential to leverage this wealth for national well being as well as to seek global presence for the nation. Human resources, particularly with large young population, are unique core strength of the nation. This resource can be transformed through various educational and training programmes. Skilled, unskilled and creative manpower can be transformed into wealth generators particularly in the service sectors, agro industries etc. Knowledge-intensive industries can be generated out of our existing industries by injecting demand for high-level software/hardware, which would bring tremendous value addition. It is said, “the precious asset for a company or a country is the skill, ingenuity and imagination of its people. With globalisation, this will become more important because everybody will have access to world class technology and the key distinguishing feature will be the ability of people in different countries to use their imagination to make the best use of the technology”. Indeed development and innovative use of multiple technologies with transparent management structure and coupled with IT, will catapult India into a knowledge super power KNOWLEDGE GENERATORS RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE WORLD SELF RELIANCE MISSION Defence & Internal Security www.presidentofindia.nic.in