India - A Developed Country by 2020

Every Indian believes that India would become a developed country by 2020.Thanks to our beloved Abdul Kalam for cultivating his vision in our minds. But do we have any project plan to achieve his vision. I dont think that we have any definitive plan or road map for this.
I've identified some core areas which we need to focus in the next decade to become a developed nation.

Here we go :

Agriculture

Agriculture is the backbone of our country.Over 60% of the country's population employed in agriculture.Hence Agriculture plays a major role in the overall development of a country. Most of the country's agriculture population depends on monsoon or natural rainfall.We are seeing regularly that when one part of country affected by excessive floods the other parts suffered by severe drought. How we are going to solve this issue? One solution might be the interlinking of rivers across India.But there are practical difficulties in implementing the integration of rivers at one shot. We can do this by interlinking the rivers within the state, then between the neighbouring states and finally across the country.We can also take a leaf out of the countries like Denmark, Newzealand etc for implementing the efficient techniques to the growth of agriculture.Agriculture plays a major role in the overall GDP of these countries.

Education
Education plays a major role in shaping a country's future.Our government should strive to improve the quality of basic education given to the students in rural areas.How long are we going to say that so many Indians are working in Nasa, Microsoft, Google etc? Let us say that so many foreigners are working in our Indian organizations like ISRO, HAL etc.
We have to invite bright students from US, Europe and other countries to learn in our universities by improving the quality of our educational institutions .In this way we can utilize all the brightest Indian minds of India.

Healthcare
Most of the people living in rural parts of India struggle with the public health care system as its minimal or non existant in the villages. Due to commercial gains the health care system is concentrating on cities and urbanized places.We have got world class hospitals with excellent doctors which attracts the millions of patients outside of the country.But we are not able to provide a basic health care system to our citizens.Our goverment along with the private health care institutions should provide a accessible public health care system to the rural people at free of cost.The strength of India lies in its Human Resources and our goverment responsibility is to take care of it well.Lets make India a healthy nation by 2020.

Infrastructure
I think this is one of the most discussed topic in the last couple of years. Infrastructure means providing best environment like roadways, airports, bridges, clean water, electricity, sewages etc to the citizens of a country. This not only improve the quality of living but also bring more foreign investments to the country.Infrastructure is like fuel for the fast growing nation like India. According to Businessweek "The infrastructure deficit in india is so critical that it could prevent India from achieving the prosperity that finally seems to be within its grasp. Without reliable power and water and a modern transportation network, the chasm between India's moneyed elite and its 800 million poor will continue to widen, potentially destabilizing the country".

Others

Apart from the above areas there are certain things that we need to give importance. One is the transparency in our political system like western countries. This will prevent the corruption which is hindering the growth of our country.

Second one is protecting and nurturing our culture which dates back to millions of years ago.No one will deny that globalization and libralization have changed our cultural values. There are both postive and negative things in globalization and we should try to accompany the positive things of it without affecting our values.

Development along with our cultural values will take our nation to greater heights.

Let us say "Tomorrow is Ours "