INDIA IN 2050

India is the Country of diversity. It is the beauty if diversity that makes

india a very unique country in every aspect be it technical, scientific, social, or environmental.
Every Indian is worth of accomplishing every task that can flourishes the economy of the nation.
Even history has proved that Indians are worth gems for world in the form of the vivekanand,
mahatma Gandhi, mother Teresa, satuyajit ray, sam pitroda and many to specify. It is proved that
we Indians has more innovativeness than many other public in the world. Then the question
stuck in our mind that according to current situation how india will look in 2050? What will be
its socio-economic status, science and technological development, living standard and other
related fields?

Though having busy roads, tight schedule, population density, health

hazards etc., we Indians are still proud of our culture. in spite of serving MNCs with cheap
labour, still being the biggest reason of success of our culture that focus on eco-friendliness, our
actions that we though indirectly indulge in serving humanity

India has experienced extraordinary population growth: between 2001

and 2011 India added 181 million people to the world, slightly less than the entire population of
Brazil. But 76 per cent of Indias population lives on less than US$2 per day (at purchasing
power parity rates). India ranks at the bottom of the pyramid in per capita-level consumption
indicators not only in energy or electricity but in almost all other relevant per capita-level
consumption indicators, despite high rates of growth in the last decade.

Much of Indias population increase has occurred among the poorest

socio-economic percentile. Relatively socio-economically advanced Indian states had a fertility
rate of less than 2.1 in 2009 less than the level needed to maintain a stable population
following infant mortality standards in developed nations. But in poorer states like Bihar, fertility
rates were nearer to 4.0.

Does this growth mean India can rely on the demographic dividend to
spur development? This phenomenon, which refers to the period in which a large proportion of a
countrys population is of working age, is said to have accounted for between one-fourth and
two-fifths of East Asias economic miracle as observed late last century.

But India is not East Asia. Its population density is almost three times
the average in East Asia and more than eight times the world average of 45 people per square
kilometre. If India has anywhere near 1.69 billion people in 2050, it will have more than 500
people per square kilometre. Besides, in terms of infrastructure development India currently is
nowhere near where East Asian nations were before their boom. In terms of soft to hard
infrastructure, spanning education, healthcare, roads, electricity, housing, employment growth
and more, India is visibly strained.

For example, India has an installed energy capacity of little more than
200 gigawatts; China has more than 1000 gigawatts and aims to generate 600 gigawatts of clean
electricity by 2020. To make matters worse, many of the newly installed power stations in India
face an acute shortage of coal, and future supply is not guaranteed. China mines close to four
billion tonnes of coal per year, which has a negative effect on both local and global air quality.
At some stage, it is probably inevitable that India will need much greater capacity than its
present rate of mining 600 million tonnes of coal per year, which is also causing local and global
pollution levels to rise parts of India face air quality problems similar to those in China. On
oil, India imports close to 80 per cent of its crude oil requirements, while it also runs an
unsustainable current account deficit of more than 5 per cent of its GDP, and reserves for new
energy sources like shale gas do not look promising either.

Indias food supply is in an even worse position. As a member of

Indias Planning Commission put it, we have a problem and it can be starkly put in the
following way: around 20042005, our per capita food grains production was back to the 1970s
level. In 200507, the average Indian consumed only 2,300 calories per day below the
defined poverty line in rural areas of 2,400 calories a day. The trend in recent years is for Indians
to eat even less.

So, for India, treating lightly Malthusian predictions about food supply
until 2050 or beyond may not be prudent. Worldwide food prices have been on the rise to
unforeseen levels, and India too has been suffering from high food inflation.

Finally, even if India manages to feed its burgeoning population, its

growth may not be ecologically sustainable. The global demand for water in 2050 is projected to
be more than 50 per cent of what it was in 2000, and demand for food will double. On average, a
thousand tons of water is required to produce one ton of food grains. Its not surprising, then, that
international disputes about water have increasingly been replicated among states in India, where
the Supreme Court is frequently asked to intervene.

The probable answer is that policy makers have failed miserably on all
measurable counts. If one compares India to China this becomes clear. While Chinas one-child
policy has been criticised as against human dignity and rights and there is no denying that
such measures should be avoided as far as possible the history of human civilization teaches
us that extreme situations call for extreme actions. There will be ample time for multiple schools
to have their post-mortems on the success and failure of the one-child policy, but it has helped
China to control its population by a possible 400 million people.
 There are still millions of people still surviving in india on income of less
than one dollar a day . India will never be consider developed country unless and until the
poverty, hunger and pain of the poor on the streets and those living in the slums is curbed.

according to the wealth report 2012 by knightfrunk and citi private bank,
india will emerge as the economic superpower in 2050, beating U.S. and china with a GDP of
$85.97 trillion and india will also witness an economic growth of 8% by 2050.

There must be upward mobility in economic terms and recognisation is

through performance and results, and not through other metrics which suit special interest
groups. Indian high-tech companies should create their own top position in the world by
indentifying world and fulfilling those by leveraging technologies. They should identify what
services need to be developed and delivered to meet the need of our underdeveloped population
to improve health-care, education and new economic models to benefit backward sections of the
society. The high-tech industry is going through disruptive changes because of transition to
cloud- delivered services.

Thus an Optimistic view of emerging india as a fully developed not only

as a superpower nation but also as a wholesome development in the fields of health, education,
business, urban and special emphesis on rural development with a poverty free, slum free, high
employment opportunity are the thoughts and dreams that every Indian might be seeing. with the
efforts of all of us we will surely see our proud INDIA IN 2050 as a prousperous, happy and
overally developed nation.

By Chirag S. Kugasiya

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