India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium (published 1998 ISBN 0670882712) is a book, written by former President of India A P J Abdul Kalam, before his tenure as the President, and Y. S. Rajan.
== Introduction == about the book 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."
== Vision of Developed India == content
Transforming the nation into a developed country, five areas in combination have been identified based on India's core competence, natural resources and talented manpower for integrated action to double the growth rate of GDP and realize the Vision of Developed India.
Agriculture and food processing -- with a target of doubling the present production of food and agricultural products by 2020. Agro food processing industry would lead to the prosperity of rural people, food security and speed up the economic growth.
Infrastructure with reliable and quality electric power including solar farming for all parts of the country, providing urban amenities in rural areas and interlinking of rivers.
Education and Healthcare: To provide social security and eradication of illiteracy and health for all.
Information and Communication Technology: This is one of our core competencies and wealth generator. ICT can be used for tele-education, tele-medicine and e-governance to promote education in remote areas, healthcare and also transparency in the administration.
Critical technologies and strategic industries witnessed the growth in nuclear technology, space technology and defence technology.[1]
The book's 300 pages are divided into 12 chapters
== Quote == by A P J Abdul Kalam. "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." -
The vision has inspired a group of young people to start a movement which has been named DreamIndia2020 (http://www.dreamindia2020.org/) and Bharat2020 (http://www.bharat2020.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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