“How can India reach the top HDI while keeping the ecological footprint sustainable?”

Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

11th President of the Republic of India

Official Website AbdulKalam.com

The official site tells the official story. From the organizers' point of view, Dr. Kalam, as most people know him, was an inspiring technological leader (as attested by our friends who worked with him when he was a technical team leader), and an inspiring national leader, always encouraging those around him to dream big, and work towards those dreams, for his nation, from our own experience.

From the days when his team wheeled space payloads to the test site on a bicycle, he saw that India would rise to become one of the great powers of the world, and he had a clear vision of how that would be achieved. His vision was a world of collaboration, as seen in his tireless support of such concepts as Space Solar Power.

India 2030 vision

The book "India 2030" extends the vision from the 2020 timeframe. Excerpts from Dr. Kalam's speech a Harvard University:
A P J Abdul Kalam's vision for a better, richer world in 2030
Economic Times, IndiaTimes
Updated: Nov 01, 2011, 12.38 PM IST

"A world of nations where the divide between rural and urban, rich and the poor, developed and developing, has narrowed down.
Where there is an equitable distribution of energy and water.
Where core competencies of each nation are identified.
Missions synergizing the core competencies of nations lead to economic advantage and faster development of societies.
Where all students of all societies are imparted education with a value system.
Where affordable quality healthcare is available to all.
Governance... responsive, transparent and corruption-free.
Crimes against women and children absesnt, and none in society feels alienated.
A world in which every nation is able to give a clean, green environment to all citizens, is prosperous.

Ideas:

One of the goals is to reduce the rural-urban divide, in order to overcome poverty and inequity.
Reverse urban migration.
Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA):
Create 3 connectivities: physical, electronic, knowledge, leading to economic connectivity.
Physical: Villages need roads and railway lines to connect to urban areas.
Electronic: Native knowledge preserved and enhanced with latest tools of technology, training and research. Access to good education from good teachers, good medical treatment, new information on agrcitulure, fishery, horticulture, food processing.
Physical + electronic connectivity ==> knowledge connectivity.
Facilitates productivity, healthcare transparency and access to markets.
3 connectivities ==> earning capacity == economic connectivity.
Provide Urban Amenities to Rural Areas, uplift rural areas, attract investors, introduce effectively useful systems such as rural BPOs and microfinance.
7000 PURA to cover 600,000 villages where 750 million live.
30,000 PURAs to cover 3 billion rural population worldwide. Vibrant economic zone, sustainable development to rural areas.
PURAs already underway in India.
Next gen PURA enterprises think of relationship to the workforce as beyond being the provider of a livelihood.
PURA Activated has 2 kinds of entrepreneurs.
Resource entrepreneurs focus on economic realization of natural, traditional and human resources with the help of customized technology and modern management to enhance income of every household. Play critical role of moving resources up the value chain with best practices in matching product to market. Performance reflected in overall growth of GDP of the rural complex.
Social entrepreneurs work closely with resource entrepreneuers. Focus on improving HDI in term sof education, healtcare and standards of living by providing amernities and equity across various diversities. Promote purchasing power into better lives and higher skills.
Entrepreneurs of PURA work in close synchronization with local PURA champions who may be institutions or organizations of repute, Parner with govt, local administration and palchayati Raj institutions. Entreprises from different parts of the world can be partners with PURA activted, by acting as equity investors, exploring and facilitiating market linkages and providing a technological platform, best practices and innovative solutions to production challenges.
Such collaborative platforms for 600,000 villages alond will have over $200B benefit to the country, which can harness an agrarian economy leading to mutual benefits. This can be expanded to all countries.

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Native knowledgy, the challenges of the world are poverty, illiteracy, drinking water, clean and green energy, equitable distribution of resources, quality education with values for all, overcoming societal imbalances, curing diseases, quality healthcare for all and good living conditions.

Individual nations are working to find a solution to these challenges. However, there are many international dimensions for the cause and solutions. Hence, working for solutions is a collective responsibility ..

The global vision 2030 envisages clean environment without pollution, prosperity without poverty, peace without fear of war and a happy place to live for all citizens of the world. What is needed is the participation of multiple nations, multiple institutions and people from across the globe towards common objectives.

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