Building Golden India: : How to unleash India's vast potential and transform its higher education system. Now

Building Golden India: How to unleash India’s vast potential and transform its higher education

system. Now.

Read a new book that is receiving rave reviews on a topic of significant importance: India and the future of the nation, its 1.3 billion people, and its higher education system.

The book is written by Shail Kumar, past-president, IIT Foundation and includes a foreword by Desh Deshpande, trustee, Deshpande Foundation and life member, MIT Corporation.

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Building Golden India: How to unleash India’s vast potential and transform its higher education system. Now.Copyright © Shail Kumar 2015

India 2047: where

Young men and women in all walks of lives and around the country are applying their talents, working hard, and making an impact at a national scale. In this vision, research, innovation, entrepreneurship, interdisciplinary learning, and industry-university collaborations play a critical role.


India 1947-2015

Come a long way since independence India’s share of world’s GDP

dropped from 24.4% in 1700s to 4.3% by the time British left.

Improvements in many sectors, e.g. GDP per capita has grown by five times.

However, India is facing many mega challenges That affect over 100 million

people each, e.g. poverty, urban migration, and climate change.


Higher Education, which is all post-secondary education, including vocational training, sits at a critical junction of our society.

Well prepared professionals, and a thriving research, innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem are fundamental for addressing India's mega challenges, unleashing the potential of 1.3 billion people, and making the economy more vibrant and sustainable.

So how is India’s higher education system doing?

India’s Higher Education System is in Crisis


Gross enrollment ratio is around 20%. There is a severe shortage of excellent institutions, faculty members,

and university leaders. Almost seventy years after independence there is not even one world-

class comprehensive research university in India. According to one study, 75% to 90% of the graduates are considered

unemployable. Students, parents, society, industry and nation are paying a huge price

for this broken system.

So what is the solution?

Gray Revolution


India has done well in times of crisis:

Green Revolution (food crisis) Milk Revolution (milk shortage) 1991 economic liberalization (at the gun point of foreign

exchange reserves crisis)

We need a Gray Revolution for the crisis in India’s higher education system.


Building Blocks of the Gray Revolution

We can build a golden India. (India was once a Golden Bird.)

We can transform our higher education system. (there is plenty of evidence that it can be done.)

We must start the journey now. (Demographic dividend is a time-sensitive phenomenon.)


India 2015—2047—


What leaders and readers are saying about Building Golden India

How to unleash India’s vast potential and transform its higher education system. Now.

“A groundbreaking book”

“A superb job”

“One of the most gripping non-fiction books I have ever read”

“A must read”

“Commendable treatise on India’s higher education system”

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