Piyush Goyal urges India’s youth to actively contribute to building a Viksit Bharat by 2047

Union Minister Piyush Goyal

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal urged the youth to actively contribute to building a Viksit Bharat by 2047, an aim to become make India a developed nation by the 100th year of independence.

He said that the youth will be the primary drivers of India’s transformation to a Viksit Bharat.

The finance ministry’s Economic Survey for 2024-25 has said that India needs to grow around 8 percent on an average for the next decade or two to achieve the goal of Viksit Bharat or developed India by 2047.

As part of the Visksit Bharat plan, India targets to achieve a $30 trillion economy by 2047.

Goyal elaborated on the four other pledges -- shedding the colonial mindset, taking pride in India’s heritage, prioritising the unity and integrity of the nation, collective resolve of 1.4 billion Indians to contribute to nation-building – required to fulfil the first aim of becoming a Viksit Bharat.

Speaking at an event on July 18, Goyal said, “that first commitment to become a developed or a prosperous nation with the four other commitments on which we will have to all focus our attention and participate,” adding that there needs to be a commitment towards shedding the colonial mindset inherited over the centuries of being subjugated to foreign rule.

Goyal added that unity is India’s biggest strength.

“From north to south, from east to west, we all rise when our soldiers are giving a befitting reply in Operation Sindoor to the heinous terrorist attack in Pahalgam. That is the unity which defines India.”