I see abundant opportunities for progress and improvement in every field. Here are some thoughts on few sectors like education, services and agriculture.

Education in India has a long way to go. In the industry they always talk about manpower shortage and unskilled labor. But what about building on the top of what we already have? 1 billion minds/brains which can be molded into a great finished product is surely an opportunity. How about 100 IITs, 50 ISBs/IIMs? Remember that investment is education is the best investment. Even if we forget about grand IIT or IIM dreams, even a small help in terms of career guidance and financial support to the students in rural India is going to make a huge difference.

Let us talk about agriculture. Everyone cribs about the sad story of farmer suicides and diminishing growth rate in this sector. But truth is, this sector has the potential to feed entire world. What is required is the cumulative will form the industry, government and farming community to move ahead. There is a great future in this sector once the business houses like reliance, bharati, tatas and ITC team up with farmers to create a profitable and sustainable business model. ITC has already shown the way in with e-chaupal.

Services  is already an astonishing growth story. We have done a lot and a lot needs to be done. IT and BPOs have been a great success. IT is to be sustained with tough competition from China and others. New avenues are to be searched. More job creation in this sctor should be relatively easy. But we should not only remain the backend service provider and the thrust should be more on creating more and more finished products. That is where the real good margins and fun is.