Supplementary Edition 2021 of ‘India 2047: Empowering the People’ – ‘A stupendous job’

The  Supplementary Edition 2021 of “India 2047: Empowering the People”  was released sometime back at Bangalore. It is the flagship document that Empower India Foundation (EIF), has prepared incorporating the visions, ideas, suggestions, practical solutions and ways and means for the empowerment of the Muslim community.   The India 2047 Project Document is a “ Vision-to-Action ” document which was released by Rajinder Justice Sachar on August 15 th  2016. Releasing the document Justice Sachar had then remarked: “Empower India Foundation has done such a stupendous job which the governments of the nation could not do in last 70 years”.   Let’s not be pessimists who see only difficulties in opportunities; let’s be optimists who can turn every difficulty into an opportunity. Stop lamenting the past; Start striving for the future.  Thus, reads the blurb of India 2047 Document (2016) and this Supplementary Edition (2021).
Since 2016, India and its people including Muslim community have undergone various transformations. Along with the lessons learned through the field experiences, the socio-political changes in India and their impact on the developmental status of communities call for additions to the contents prepared five years back. The present volume, Supplementary Edition 2021, the supplement to the original publication, is to fulfil that task.
Dream plan for empowering Muslim community by 2047 In India 2047  EIF submitted before the community, the society and the nation, a dream plan for empowering the Indian Muslim community on par with national standards by 2047, the dawn of the second century of our independence. It was not just a vision document, but a comprehensive conceptual frame for community-level actions with specified Focus Areas, Goals, Objectives and Initiatives.       Now, this  Supplementary Edition   2021 of India 2047  is relevant at this point of time when EIF is moving ahead by resetting priorities: Research and Liaison at the apex and Chapters at the grassroots. At the end of first phase of the project, as part of catalysing the empowerment activities, EIF is in the process of building a system and network of academics and activists to perform the role more like that of a pro-active think-tank, committed to the task of empowerment. Based on this concept, the idea of EIF is to focus on three areas, namely Relations building, Research and Publications activities. The Relations Division is concentrating on the outreach of at the grassroots, other agencies, organisations, groups and individuals working in the field of empowerment; and making part of the project. The Research and Publications Division focuses on promoting short-term and long-term research with regard to community empowerment and issues and topics that affect the community.