Viksit Bharat focuses on potential of all Indians, not just global ranks

Our world rankings are, without question, a stunning achievement that calls for monumental pride

Viksit Bharat is a welcome citizen-oriented vision that hopefully will reposition our discourse about ourselves. It goes beyond the competitive chest-thumping of world rankings that has been in vogue in government and business these past few years — explicitly defining the goal of economic prosperity in people terms as providing opportunities and a high standard of living for all citizens (though several press reports have missed this point and read it the old way of aggregate gross domestic product and world rank improvement). If read holistically, it shifts the discussion towards building and utilising the potential of all Indians, rather