Namaskara and welcome to BIC Talks, a podcast brought to you by Bangalore International Centre, where we present conversations that move, inform and encourage discourse.

First, I must express my eternal gratitude to the panellists.

being who they are, have done me this great honor of spending the time to be here.

And then to all of you, eminent guests and friends, for being here to discuss what's there in the book.

And as been said, the strategic choices that India faces.

I'll take about 10 minutes to try and put across what we found in the book and start off by saying that this is, it kind of started off with my, this is my second visit to the BIC.

And the first was about two years ago when I spoke here about India at 47, when India at 47 or Vixit Bharat was not such a popular thing as it has become today.

saying that we shouldn't be

What is it that we need to do today, in a very broad sense to start with, to ensure that we are somewhere on the path of achieving that target and we do not get waylaid?

We need to define the developed economy more carefully.

And I think the World Bank's high-income economy status is a good one, which is fourteen thousand dollars.

So you need to go from, let's say three thousand to fourteen thousand.

That's four times.

And for that, in my view, what you need is growth rate between eight and nine percent for two decades.

It's doable.

Ministry of Electronics.