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NITI Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam has said a vision document is being prepared for India to become a developed economy of about $30 trillion by 2047, and it will be released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January next year. The draft ‘Vision India @2047’ document will outline the institutional and structural changes/ reforms that will be needed for the country to become a developed nation by 2047.

In 2023, NITI Aayog was entrusted with the task of consolidating the 10 sectoral thematic visions into a combined vision for Viksit Bharat @2047. Subrahmanyam said the government wants the college enrolment rate in India to increase from 27 per cent to 50-60 per cent. He said the government is spending huge money on higher education and now there is also a need to revamp India’s education sector.

He said ‘So, the college going population would go up from 4 crore to 8-9 crore. So we need a thousand more universities, in addition to the thousand universities we have today.’ Besides, he highlighted that since states are fiscally stressed, funds for opening new universities will have to come from the private sector. He noted that there is a need to create education cities like Boston and San Francisco where R&D and innovation can happen.