An Approach Paper on India's Development as Knowledge Society

Abstract

Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee, has recently unveiled a five point agenda for India’s Development as Knowledge Society. The Prime Minister stated “A knowledge based society will enable us to leap-frog in finding new and innovative ways to meet the challenges of building a just and equitable social order and seek urgent solutions” in his inaugural address to delegates attending the ASSOCHAM summit recently held on “India in the knowledge millennium”.