A call I felt in my bones
When the Prime Minister recently urged the country’s youth to lead India’s journey to a developed nation by 2047, I felt a familiar echo — one I’ve written about before and one that has, for years, guided my conversations about work, skills and the demographic promise we hold.
I don’t write as a spectator. I write as someone who has watched decades of change, who has worried over jobs and lived through policy waves that promised to convert potential into livelihoods. The Prime Minister’s push for a Viksit Bharat @2047 — and the invitation for youth to shape it via programs such as the Voice of Youth initiative — is, to me, an urgent reminder: the next 25 years are not a distant project; they are a daily task.[^1][^2]
Where I see the opportunity
India’s youthful population is not just a statistic. It is the single biggest asset we have if we convert energy into capability. From my earlier writings about India’s demographic trends and the challenge of generating jobs at scale, I remain convinced that the answer lies at the intersection of education, skilling, entrepreneurship and civic participation.[^3]
What I take from the Prime Minister’s appeal is practical optimism: leadership by the young will be hands-on, creative and messy — and that’s the point. To turn a national ambition into reality we need millions of small, everyday acts of nation-building:
- Reinvent learning: move from certificate-driven systems to competence-driven outcomes — digital fluency, deep domain skills, and adaptability.
- Build local manufacturing muscle: design for affordability, scale, and export competitiveness.
- Make tech inclusive: from agri-tech to health-tech, low-cost, high-impact innovation must be the default.
- Scale vocational parity: make vocational skills as prestigious and as accessible as academic degrees.
- Civic daily practice: conserve water, reduce waste, vote thoughtfully, and participate in public problem solving.
Practical actions I’d urge young leaders to take
- Treat the next quarter-century as an apprenticeship in systems thinking. Learn not only one trade, but how supply chains, policy, finance and communities interact.
- Start small, scale fast. Pilot solutions in your district or city before seeking national fame. Iteration beats perfection.
- Join or create mentorship loops. Young innovators need older practitioners who can translate strategy into execution — and the older need new energy to challenge stale assumptions.
- Make entrepreneurship a social ethic. Not every enterprise will be a unicorn; many will be durable, local engines of jobs and dignity.
- Insist on measurable public outcomes. If we want a developed nation, we must measure progress in learning outcomes, jobs created, health indices and environmental resilience — not just GDP.
Policy nudges I’d like to see reinforced
- Funding windows that target early-stage local manufacturing and deep-tech with explicit job-creation metrics.
- Curriculum reform that embeds vocational pathways and entrepreneurship at secondary and higher-education levels.
- Public-private partnerships that accelerate deployment of affordable infrastructure (energy, digital, logistics) in smaller towns and rural clusters.
- National apprenticeships tied to tax incentives, so firms that train incur lower hiring risk.
Why this matters beyond economics
A developed India by 2047 is not only about per-capita numbers. It’s about dignity, resilience, and the capacity to set global rules rather than just respond to them. The Prime Minister’s emphasis on youth leadership is an appeal to moral imagination: to ask every citizen to live with the long-term in mind, and to treat public life as an enduring craft, not a seasonal hobby.[^1]
A personal ask — and a promise
If you are young and impatient for change, channel that impatience into learning and building. If you are older and experienced, give your time, not just your money. If you are in government or enterprise, make friction-free spaces for young teams to experiment. I will keep writing, mentoring, and nudging — and I invite you to do the same.
We have the demographic potential and increasing policy focus. The rest is collective habit: the daily, ordinary choices that add up. The Prime Minister’s call was a spark; our task is to keep that flame alive every day until 2047.
Regards,
Hemen Parekh
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[^1]: "PM's 79th I-Day Address: A Vision for a Viksit Bharat 2047" — PMO news update: https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/pms-79th-i-day-address-a-vision-for-a-viksit-bharat-2047/
[^2]: "PM launches 'Viksit Bharat @2047: Voice of Youth'" — PMO news: https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/pm-launches-viksit-bharat-2047-voice-of-youth/
[^3]: My earlier reflections on India’s demographic opportunity and jobs: "India’s Population Explodes -- 5" — https://emailothers.blogspot.com/2011/04/fw-indias-population-explodes-5.html
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