17/08/2026
NEW DELHI, Aug 16: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced a clutch of initiatives ranging from AI training for one crore youth and free online coaching for competitive examinations to a nationwide sports talent hunt and a modern civil defence network as he laid out his roadmap for a developed India by 2047.
In his Independence Day address from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Modi also set a target of raising India's nuclear power capacity to 100 GW by 2047, announced plans for more semiconductor plants and said the government would aim to create six crore "Lakhpati Didis", doubling its earlier target.
The announcements formed part of a broader pitch for accelerating reforms and building self-reliance, with the prime minister saying India would have to accomplish in the next five to seven years what it could not achieve in the previous five to seven decades.
Modi announced that one crore young people would be trained in artificial intelligence skills over the next year whi...