Tech and energy central to Rajasthan’s development

Anyone who has travelled from Delhi through Rajasthan on the new Delhi-Mumbai expressway would have noticed the rapid transformation that is sweeping the state.

- Bhajan Lal Sharma

In many ways, Rajasthan isa living illustration of the changes that are taking place in India itself, exemplifying Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi’s focus on states as India’s primary growth engines.

These symbols of change exemplify the vision the PM has set out with the focussed goal to turn India into a developed nation — Viksit Bharat — by 2047, harnessing the power of technology. It would not be incorrect to say that we are in the middle of one most transformative periods in our lives in modern India, coming as it does during the high noon of technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) that are solving problems ata scale, ease and efficiency that were considered unimaginable evena few years ago.

The roadmap for a Viksit Rajasthan @2047 is driven by the coordinates of technology, smartness, data-driven decision-making, and renewable energy. The framework demonstrates the policy matrix to enable the flourishing of the Schumpeterian process of “creative destruction” for relentless improvements in new products and technologies.

One of the core focus areas is to turn Rajasthan into one of the ‘world’s most preferred destinations for AI-optimised manufacturing and industry 4.0 by setting up factories of the future. The coordinating application of AI and industry 4.0 principles, will modernise traditional industries, such as textiles, handicrafts, and marble processing, and also significantly enhance advanced sectors like automotive components, electronics, and pharmaceuticals.