We consume oil, electronics and gold. We Our agricultural and food processing sector is inefficient. We lose forex in tourism and education.
Energy Independence is a must, not just for economic, but also strategic reasons.
We have to fast-track our methanol based economy and rely more on electric vehicles. Methanol production capacity has to be increased and incentives offered for heavy vehicles to turn to methanol.
Railways have to run on electricity. Maybe rail lines can be covered by solar panels just as we are doing for some canals. Areas adjacent to railway lines can be used for wind turbine installation.
GOI should promote digital gold more and shore up actual gold reserves. More digitization if the ecoonomy should be encouraged with top up cards especially for micro transactions.
Token income tax collection should be introduced for all income brackets, thereby promoting digitization and micros transactions.
Electronics sector can be made stronger by encouraging indegeneous development. Some schemes can be making wholly Indian manufactured phones mandatory for official use, encourage use of tablets in education, encourage use of Indian electronicegoods loaded with our BOSS OS in education and government sector.
Agriculture has to be made more efficient and incentives given to land owners of small pieces of land for merging small pieces of agricultural land. A co-operative model for agriculture may work.
Faith in our education system gets eroded because of cheating, leaking of exam papers, bad quality of teaching and teachers in Schools and colleges. We should encourage more online learning and online examinations to increase fairness in the system.
