Our nation has diversified culture, cuisines and land known for creativity and commitment that lead to over 800 registered GI products and 607 GIs have been granted since more than decade+. The technological advancements and Swadeshi products, Vocal for Local products designed and developed in India, have changed the mindset, perception, and temperament of every citizen of India, which is well proved through traditionally old Channapatna toys, which are GI-tagged wooden lacquerware handicrafts reflects the protection of India's cultural treasures built by artisans. India has established a vibrant wide usage of UPI across India and abroad. Firsthand Vocational training through Namo Drone Didi scheme that connects Drone technology with Women Self Help Groups which is widely accepted as development of rural communities through 21st Century Technology. This is the actual Transformation of Temperament that led to Women Talent development, especially the rural domain. Tribal young girls trained under INUP i2i Nanofabrication flagship program of Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt of India. The talent development reflects young girls trained in advanced fabrication at Malaysia and they are in the process of developing in-house chip at CG Semiconductor plant at Gujarat. A century well known for its transformation of digital technologies to empower industries pushing - innovation, domestic manufacturing value chains, and productivity, infrastructure, which includes digital infrastructure like UPI and digital financial infrastructures such as the recently launched Reserve Bank of India data centre at Odissa. India a country achieved its pinnacle of success that covers innovation by converting real-world problem statement into projects that lead to the outcomes of developing technological products and software as a service - VEGA Processor, Shakti processor, Quantum Random Number Generator System in Package, Bhashini, eSanjeeveni (a Telemedicine), CoWIN, Param Rudra, Param Shevak | Param Shavak - High Performance Super Computing technologies, CSIR Designer Rice, a high-protein, low-glycaemic-index rice, JEET, the SCMC4212 microcontroller unit developed by Signalchip, ISRO launching successfully CMS-03 Mission (also known as GSAT-7R) on from cutting-edge space station - Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Srihari Kota. IndiaAI mission is on Mission mode to launch indigenous in house developed in-house AI models - EKA-1, Dhir 2B, and Dhir 5B developed by Soket AI labs and ZenetiQ.ai. These developed innovative technologies and solutions highlight the power of India to be no longer consumer of technologies but creators of in-house home-grown technologies that boost domestic manufacturing to meet international benchmarks and quality. These could be possible because of robust mission policies, infrastructures and most importantly the talent developments.
India: A Hub for Innovation
· Do we know the strength of our nation which built a strong ecosystem that could manifest India as a New Age Nation by creating innovative solution?
· Are we aware of India's Mission Programs and Public Private Partnership (PPP) models that reshaped talent developments in our country?
· How India successfully established a strong bilateral cooperations that facilitated Global South and International countries?
In the recent times, over a period of 12 years, India has transformed bare lands into lands of goldmine of technological hubs, research and innovation parks, experience zones, innovation clusters, Thematic hubs. India's foremost technological hubs that reshaped, redefined, and reoriented our nation to international benchmarks.
These hubs act as epicenter for pushing innovations leading to develop indigenous products that has placed our nation 38th rank among the global countries in GII Index 2026, 1st among the 36 Lower middle-income group economies, 1st among the 11 economies in Central and Southern Asia as per the reports published by World Intellectual Property Rights.
The mission program that created momentum among the talents is IndiaAI Mission, National Quantum Mission, National Hydrogen Mission, National Semiconductor Mission, National Mission for Critical Minerals. Our country established a User-friendly tie-up with global countries through various championships and universal initiatives especially BRICS, QUAD, G20, TRUST with US, UK-India Technology Security Initiative (TSI), Australia-Canada-India Technology and Innovation (ACITI) Partnership. Additionally, these initiatives have facilitated the young minds to unlearn and learn first-hand skills through direct experiential learning. These has resulted directly or indirectly to achieve 10th position in the World Skills Competition.
Vocational skills since dated from many decades still forms the foundational building blocks for students of various age groups. The birth of 21st century opened new avenues for digital transformation technologies (Industry 4.0/5.0) such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Quantum technologies to be a part of the students experiential learning ecosystems. Man-Machine Interface | Brain-Computer Interface - students of different age groups should master these technologies. India adapts the best practices of hands-on learning in various streams starting from INUP i2i (Nanofabrication), Skill Development Program by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and various internship avenues such as My Bharat, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, MeitY, Govt. of India, National Apprenticeship 2.0, Skill India Hub has paved the way for young minds to develop resilience, robust, confidence, confluence, championship and most importantly the community based learning thereby meeting the objectives of social responsibility as well. India has achieved the status of self-sustainability through building its capital resources in the form of creating a robust infrastructure, smart Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), user friendly Free Trade Agreements (FTA). India has strengthened its food security, defence security, space security, nuclear security and most importantly energy security, especially through the pioneering Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Program - one of key pillar of India's energy transition and biofuel strategy. India has surpassed the stage of various struggles successfully through building a vibrant technological and innovation ecosystem. Undoubtedly, the committed contribution of Young and talented minds plays a key role in forming fulcrum for our Viksit Nation.
The writer is CEO, Daksh UPSIFS Foundation Uttar Pradesh State Institute of Forensic Science, Lucknow; Views presented are personal.