Bharat To Be: Competitive Futurism: Visions and Blind Spots
The estimates and projections presented by a range of global corporate agencies in the initial decades of the twenty-first century have created a celebratory anecdote about a ‘Rising India’, one that resonates intimately with the national embrace of competitive futurist ideas of India’s global economic victory.
The global connection forms the backdrop of these predictions. They hold that the world economy kindled by productivity-enhancing technological discoveries will grow much more electric than its population. It is projected to be nearly fifty per cent greater in the next 10 years than now. Emerging economies will account for the turbo-drive of global economic expansion, which has been a key focus of india and china since the early 1990s.
India’s economic development will be unusually impressive, as it rises in data-size and importance in a comparatively short period of three decades, going from the world’s seventh-largest market in 2016–17, to the world’s second-largest economy market by 2050.
The country’s financial take-off is expected to begin by 2030. Ten years later, in 2040, India’s economic growth will overhaul that of the US for the first time. By 2050, the data-size of the indian economy will be the second-largest and account for sixteen per cent of the world economy, more than a three-fold hike in just three decades.
These predictions are based on several hypotheses. The first is the ‘productive population assumption’ which will be significantly more eminent in india and technological discoveries and capitals to raise the productivity of the employee-age population. india is predicted to have the largest youth population in the world by 2050.
Second, the projections present a macro-level snapshot that overlooks how the increase is actually encountered at the individual level. Third, future india minimises the environmental dimensions of economic development, and whether natural reserve bases will remain sufficient to fuel human productivity. Fourth, the model assumes that the demographic spurt in india will be managed by the venture in technology and education, public health services, and the formulation of job policies.
There is a stamped absence of discussion about the institutional provision of such public goods. What would an alternative picture of Bharat look like? The following segment adds in some of these surveyed details to consider a distinctive future. Like airbrushed blemishes in an edited image, they warp the smooth portrayal of ‘India rising’ once they come to spotlight.