India Tech Vision-2035

India Tech Vision-2035

• India's technology thinktank under the ministry of science & technology has come out with `Technology Vision 2035' here at the ongoing Indian Science Congress, identifying the challenges ahead and how they can be dealt with through technological interventions while realising the dream of a developed India by the year 2035.
• The thinktank -Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) -in the vision document lists a technology roadmap for India, giving details of 12 sectors and technologies that in some cases exist but need to be deployed, some in the pilot stage that must be scaled up and technologies in R&D stage.
• It, in fact, talks about many future technologies, ranging from flying cars, real time translation software, personalised medicine, wearable devices, e-sensing (e-nose and e-tongue) to 100% recyclable materials among others which may be used in different areas to solve day-to-day problems “The trajectories delineated as part of this `Technology Vision 2035' along with its actualisation would not only lead to the desired quality of life for citizens but also boost our comprehensive national power“, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his foreword to the document, while emphasising that the pressure on country's resources can only be solved through use of technology .
• The document was released by the PM after he inaugurated the 103rd Indian Science Congress on Sunday where he promised that his government would “make it easier to do science and research“ in India and envisioned a future in which innovation makes lives of people better.
• Interestingly , the document also talks about technology which still dwells in the imagination, saying these may become real as “a result of curiosity driven, paradigm shattering research (called blue sky research)“.
• As part of those `blue sky research ideas, the govern ment thinktank imagined the concept of virtual courts and digital evidence; com plex real-time dynamic di saster management re sponse systems; sensing devices to be able to feel the product on internet before buying it; machinesrobots to connect all personal and emotional needs; intelli gence vehicles to detect emergency situations and take over the control and inter-planetary communications systems.
• “This is not a vision of echnologies available in 035 per se; rather, it is a vi ion where our country and compatriots should be in 035 and how technology would bring this vision to ruition“, said the document before elaborating on how he sector-wise `future technologies' can bring change o the lives of people.
• This is the second time the hinktank has come out with uch a vision document. The irst one -Technology Vision 020 -had come under A P J Abdul Kalam in 1996 with a view to sketch the scenario as of the year 2020. “... it is impor ant to repeat such an exercise o review the actual state of play and take into account new possibilities and chal enges...“ said the preamble of he 2035 Vision.
• Nobel laureates pitch for `Invent in India'
• Four of the five Nobel laureates attending the Indian Science Congress in Mysuru said that India must focus on discovering, inventing and making here and not just making. “I think your Prime Minister Narendra Modi's slogan must change to `invent in India' from Make in India,“ American particle physicist and Nobel winner professor David J Gross said on Monday. “Making in India is obviously important for the country, but to make in India without dependence on others, you must invent in India, and to invent you must discover. Because it is discovery and inventions that lead to products that can be made,“ Gross said. Professor Dan Shechtman, echoing Gross, said there must be a strategic plan. While the need to innovate, discover and invent must be the first goal, there must be a simultaneous effort at enhancing entrepreneurship. “The inventions must be taken from the universities to startups.

Source: TOI