Konark Bhandari, Ajay Kumar, Amlan Mohanty, Shatakratu Sahu, Arun K. Singh, Shruti Sharma, Tejas Bharadwaj, and Raj Shukla
On June 9, 2024, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took an oath to lead the new government for a third successive term. Earlier in the year, he had announced his administration’s desire to implement key policy decisions within the first hundred days of the new government, if elected. Since taking office in June 2024, the new government has unveiled a series of ambitious infrastructure and logistics projects, alongside other initiatives. The technology ecosystem has also seen significant developments, in the form of a policy to boost bio-manufacturing as well as the launch of a new venture capital fund for incubating space technology.
Clearly, this has set the tone for the government’s post-election agenda. As the newly elected administration completes its first hundred days in office, a more sustained and farsighted roadmap in the technology sphere will be required. Towards this end, scholars at Carnegie India have put together this compendium of nine chapters with pointed recommendations that the government may consider as it charts the course on a tech-first agenda. In doing so, this compendium also surveys the current landscape of their respective technological areas to arrive at a crisp evaluation of how existing schemes have played out. This is relevant as we approach the ten-year anniversary of Digital India, the current government’s tech-heavy agenda that was launched in 2015. The Carnegie India team has spent months and years tracking these ecosystems and has spoken extensively to stakeholders in government, academia, and the private sector to relay these findings.
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