| Address and Interaction with the Students and Faculty Members of IIM Ahmedabad Dear friends, now I will focus on typical important missions that will bring societal transformation through competitiveness and propel the vision 2020 missions of India. | |
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| National Missions and opportunities | | Agriculture and food processing: We are in the mission of generating 340 million tonnes of food grains with reduced land, with reduced water and with reduced workforce from the present 230 million tonnes. New technology is needed in agricultural area from seeds to cultivation to the grain, food processing and marketing. This entire chain will enable employment particularly in rural areas in a big way. | |
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| | Infrastructure: India is aspiring to build hundred million homes within next ten years. The infrastructure development in metropolitan and tier-2 cities needs to be enhanced in the form of new bridges, airports, marketing complexes and industrial units. 40% of the rural areas need to be covered with all weather roads; we need to double the present national highways road length. Simultaneously, we are in the process of developing ports, railway systems and airports. For example, the Indian construction industry employs over 31 million people for its asset generating activity of over Rs.310,000 crore (US$ 62 billion) which includes expenditure of Rs.200,000 crore (US$40 billion) incurred by the Government. This will need development of specialized quality human resource in all the spectrum of construction activity. This task will need reorientation of our education system for generating world class skills among the youth. | |
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| | Energy: Energy independence is our national goal. We are determined to achieve before the year 2030. While our population may touch 1.4 billion people, demand from power sector will increase from the existing 145,000 MW to about 400,000 MW. This assumes an energy growth rate of 5% per annum. Electric power generation in India now accesses four basic energy sources: Fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal which have to be replaced by, Hydroelectricity; Nuclear power; and Renewable energy sources such as bio-fuels, solar, biomass, wind and ocean. We need a major thrust in solar energy (55,000 MW) and wind energy (64,000 MW) nuclear energy (50,000 MW) hydro power sources (66,000 MW) and bio-mass and municipal waste (20,000 MW). For the transportation sector, we have to concentrate on bio-diesel, ethanol and emulsified fuel. | |
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| | Safe Drinking Water and Water management: We are in the process of embarking on the major mission of "Interlinking of Rivers" in the nation and the statewide creation of "Waterways" which will act as a reservoir to accommodate floodwater and enhance the irrigation, navigation and tourism. | |
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| | Healthcare: India is in the mission of "Health for all" programme and "Vision 2020" for eye care. It provides tremendous opportunity in the primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare. We are also in the mission of establishing tele-medicine centers in the Primary Health Centre of 2 lakh panchayats through connectivity mission via Satellite, Terrestrial and wireless links. We have to enhance the nutrition aspects of all citizens, particularly women and children and also provide 100% sanitary facilities in homes, schools and other public places. | |
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| | Pharma Vision: The global production of pharmaceuticals, branded and generics put together is of the order of $550 billion. The Indian Pharma industry at present has a turnover of US $12.5 billion of generics for domestic and export markets against the production of US $ 78 billion worth of generics in the world. Pharma Council has evolved the Pharma Vision 2020 with a view to make India the leader in drug production. We have to set a target of producing 40% of world generics production. Indian pharmaceutical companies have got the core competence for producing cost effective and quality Pharma products. Our Pharma companies are working towards molecule to drug and have embarked on number of research programmes in developing medicines using our traditional knowledge. | |
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| | Information and Communication Technology: India has to become "Knowledge System Powerhouse" instead of software powerhouse. Also to achieve global operations, we have to consider introduction of virtual platforms for development of knowledge products based on national experience in engineering design of multiple systems leading to a business volume of US $ 200 billion by 2012 from the present business volume of US $ 60 billion. | |
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| | Aerospace :In the area of space, India has to work for Low cost access to space bringing the cost per kg from the present US $ 20,000 per orbital kg to $ 2,000. This will eventually lead India to take part in many mass missions for earth applications and interplanetary exploration for industrial base and second habitat. India has to work for 70 seater aircraft which is viable to be produced before 2020 and with enormous potential for air transportation in our country. This will lead to a business volume of US $ 15 billion. | |
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| | Automobile: The automobile industry in India accounts for a business volume of US $ 45 billion. Definitely, it has a potential to grow much faster both through Indian manufacturers and many well-known international manufacturers who have established huge facilities in the country. We are poised to increase business volume to US $ 200 billion by 2016 with an export component of at least US $ 50 billion. | |
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| | Shipbuilding: India today builds ships for oil exploration, service vessels, port operations, self-propelled barges for river transports and cargo ships upto 92,000 DWT. In addition, we have facility for building combat ships for the Indian Navy. By 2008, we will have three shipyards for building vessels of capacity 100,000 to 150,000 DWT. We have to create facilities for vessel ranging from 150,000 DWT to 300,000 DWT. Simultaneously, there is a need for setting up of shipyards. The technology has under gone a sea change. Many of the shipbuilders in the world are building for India. | |
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| | Rail Vision 2030: I have suggested increasing the railway route length from the existing 63,000 kilometer to 90,000 kilometer, increasing average speed of trains to 200 kilometer per hour, establishment of number of metros, integrating Indian Railways with inland smart waterways with 15,000 kilometers waterways, construction of multilevel railways platforms to reduce platform crowding and overall increase in the passenger and freight throughput. | |
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| | PURA Mission: One major aspect of development is the mission for bringing rural prosperity. This is through Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA) through creation of three connectivities namely physical, electronic, knowledge leading to economic connectivity. The number of PURA for the whole country is estimated to be 7000 covering 600,000 villages where 700 million people live. This will need an investment of around 175 billion dollars. Government is planning to implement 2 PURA's per district across 600 districts in the nation. There are a number of operational PURA in the country initiated by many educational, healthcare institutions, industry and NGO's. | |
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| | All these programmes which I have mentioned above have social, research and technological content with substantial amount of opportunities for techno-managerial experts. Enterprises can carve out their own niche areas and prepare themselves for providing quality techno-managerial support which will enable execution of the economic programmes in time and at internationally competitive costs. | |
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| Converting challenge into opportunity | | All these programmes which I have mentioned above have social, research, technological and above all managerial content with several challenges. As I am with a premier management institution, I would like you to dwell on each of these for their successful fulfillment. That would form the greatest contribution of IIM to the nation at large for which you will be remembered. One of the immediate challenges is to ensure that the current economic dynamics does not result in slow downs. The solution to the dynamics involves in an integrated effort from economists, technologists, industrialists, academicians, alumni of IIM and political leaders. IIM with its core-competence in multiple disciplines and its unique ability to interface with different segments of the society has an opportunity to workout certain out of box solutions for converting this challenge into an opportunity. | |
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