INM MAGAZINE VOLUME 8 | FEBRUARY 2016
#Perspective
CAN INDIA BECOME A DEVELOPED COUNTRY
OR SHOULD IT?
Somesh Chowdhury
PGP 2015-2017
IIM Shillong
T
he question that I am about to address is
indeed riveting and to a large extent
subjective which is what makes it an area
of perpetual debate. There lies a non-exhaustive
list of issues to be discussed and hence I shall
humbly try to put forward a perspective factoring
in some selected dominant few.
India has been in a developing state of transition
for quite some time now and it goes without
saying that it has somewhat been able to catch the
attention globally as the jury remains divided as
to whether it would be able to make it to the so
called desirable state of being called a developed
nation. Being perceived as the fastest growing
emerging economy (although the verity of the
numbers behind the verdict remains under
question), India has certainly raised the
expectations of where it can take itself in the near
futu