“Gaz Bisht is an energy executive who serves on the board of a UK-listed company. After graduating from the Indian Institutes of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad and IIT Delhi, he emigrated to Australia in the early \u201990s, and later spent several years in Asia\u2014in Jakarta, Indonesia in the mid-1990s and in Beijing, China, in the mid-2000s, witnessing firsthand the working styles of these governments and the role they played in the extraordinary growth of these countries. He resides on Sydney’s North Shore with his wife and their cat, Billy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Through a meticulously researched and nuanced exploration of India\u2019s 75-year journey after Independence, British Raj to Amrit Kaal reveals a profound insight\u2014that the quantum leap in the nation\u2019s progress has not been driven through incremental policy and legislative acts, but primarily by the eight \u2018pivotal initiatives\u2019 that went far beyond policy in their scope and vision. From the creation of the IITs to the more recent initiatives like the Aadhar card and the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, this book explores these initiatives to extract the key lessons for the Amrit Kaal period that lies directly ahead. At the core of this narrative are the Sherpas\u2014those extraordinary visionaries who shattered traditional constraints of politics and bureaucracy. Confronting deeply entrenched systemic barriers, these heroes engineered remarkable breakthroughs bringing in transformative change through their unwavering determination and deep commitment to India\u2019s growth. This book is India\u2019s bold manifesto for the next twenty-five years. It outlines five visionary and comprehensive roadmaps for transforming India into Viksit Bharat, transcending not just economic metrics but serving also as a holistic model for sustainable and inclusive development for Bharat\u2019s approaching Amrit Kaal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[102,38,80,69,71,67],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-9306","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-art-culture","product_cat-cultural","product_cat-history-governance","product_cat-new-arrivals","product_cat-non-fiction","product_cat-store","pa_book-author-enrique-wallace","first","instock","featured","virtual","sold-individually","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9306"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}