New Delhi: The future of Bharat is very bright, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said Wednesday, citing data from the global investment firm Goldman Sachs.
According to data from Goldman Sachs, the Indian economy is expected to grow to 5.5 trillion dollars by 2028 and 52.5 trillion dollars by 2075.
“Today, we are an economy with a per capita income of less than 3000 dollars. This will make us ten times more prosperous. So this is also a way of imagining, of predicting what would be the future of Bharat,” he said.
Jaishankar was speaking at an event at the Miranda House in Delhi on the occasion of ‘National Girl Child Day’. On the occasion, he extended his greetings to the girls and said, “Because, as a brother as well as a father to a girl, I know the value of the family”.
He further said, “Let me tell you that the future of the country is very bright. The future is you. So when I look at you, I feel very confident about where we would be in the years and decades to come.”
The external affairs minister said that the country’s future will depend on the efforts of its people, countries, and societies.
“But futures are not predestined. They do not happen automatically. People, countries, and societies have to work for the future. And that work…the call for that work has been given by the Prime Minister when he envisaged the 25 years of the ‘Amrit-Kaal’.”
Jaishankar added that the government has set itself a goal of making India a developed nation by 2047.
He said, “One is the foundation of a democracy that directs (the future course of a country). You could ask why democracy is a big deal. We have, since independence, always been a democracy.”
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