Overview
- Addressing a March 9 post-Budget forum, the Prime Minister framed an innovation-driven economy as the goal and urged faster links between education and the real-world economy, calling on campuses to become industry-collaboration and research hubs.
- Breakout sessions brought together government, industry and experts to craft implementation roadmaps across education and skilling, health and AYUSH, tourism and hospitality, and the AVGC ecosystem, including proposals for content-creator labs.
- On health, he emphasized a preventive, holistic model and cited expanded access through Ayushman Bharat and Aarogya Mandirs, while urging new caregiver training models to build the ‘care economy’ and further scaling and simplification of telemedicine.
- A dedicated discussion on emergency care examined the Budget plan to raise emergency and trauma capacities by 50% in district hospitals and to integrate the 112 emergency system with ambulances and hospitals for faster response.
- Tourism measures under review include hospitality skilling, sustainable and heritage trails and strengthening the Buddhist circuit in the North-East, alongside a push to bolster sports infrastructure through initiatives such as Khelo India.