An Outlook for India's Future (2000 A.D.) Interim Reports on Futurology (Energy, Housing, Transport Development, Communications, Urbanology, Rural Development, Food, Management & Education

Abstract

From Preface: The formation of the National Committee in Science &c Technology (NCST) Panel on Futurology in mid-1973 has been the starting point of futurustic studies in India. The Panel identified nine areas, namely, (i) Energy Generation and Needs; (ii) Housing; (iii) Transportation; (iv) Communication; (v) Urbanology and Slum Problems; (vi) Rural Development; (vii) Food; (viii) Management; and (ix) Education, for study with a view to prepare scenarios for the year 2000 A.D. presenting likely and desired future perspectives and available options in these fields. It is hoped that these studies will afford the decision makers with a list of future courses of action. With this end in view the Futurology Panel hopes to prepare a series of monographs and technical reports in the field of future studies in the above areas. It also aims to encourage and stimulate future consciousness and research in a few advanced centres of study.