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INDIA 2020

India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium (published 1998 ISBN 0670882712 is a book, written by Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, the current President of India and Y. S. Rajan.

The book examines in depth the weakness and the strength of India, as a nation, and offers a vision of how India can emerge to be among the world's first four economic powers by 2020. Armed with a powerful opening, It is yet another example of Abdul Kalam's dedication and vision for India. The Book is dedicated to a young girl whom Kalam met and asked as "what is your dream" for which the young girl replied "I want to live in a developed India".

The book's 300 pages are divided into 12 chapters:

1. India can Become a Developed Country
2. What Other Countries Envision for Themselves
3. Evolution of Technology Vision 2020
4. Food, Agriculture and Processing
5. Materials and the Future
6. Chemical Industries and Our Biological Wealth
7. Manufacturing for the Future
8. Services As People's Wealth
9. Strategies Industries
10. Health Care for All
11. The Enabling Infrastructure
12. Realizing the Vision
13. more protective

"A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up - and succeed." - A P J Abdul Kalam.

The vision has inspired a young group of people to start a movement which has been named DreamIndia2020 (http://www.dreamindia2020.org/). This has been pioneered by a group of young professionals who share the vision given by Dr. Kalam and are trying to realize this through their little but yet significant efforts.

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