- A High-Powered Education to Employment and Enterprise Standing Committee is proposed to recommend services-sector focused measures as a core driver of “Viksit Bharat”.
- Health workforce + medical services positioning
- Allied Health Professionals (AHPs):
- Existing AHP institutions to be upgraded and new ones established across private and government sectors.
- 1,00,000 AHPs to be added over the next 5 years.
- Medical tourism:
- Five Regional Medical Hubs are proposed to promote India as a medical tourism hub.
- AYUSH:
- 3 new All India Institutes of Ayurveda are proposed.
- Allied Health Professionals (AHPs):
- Animal husbandry as a capacity layer
- Veterinary professionals to be scaled up by 20,000+.
- A loan-linked capital subsidy scheme is proposed for private-sector creation of:
- veterinary and para-vet colleges,
- hospitals,
- diagnostic labs,
- breeding facilities.
- Orange economy: AVGC at school and college scale
- Indian Institute of Creative Technologies is to be supported to set up:
- AVGC Content Creator Labs in 15,000 secondary schools and 500 colleges (Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics).
- Indian Institute of Creative Technologies is to be supported to set up:
- Education infrastructure: where learning is placed physically
- 5 University Townships are proposed near major industrial and logistics corridors via challenge route.
- Through VGF/capital support, one girls’ hostel in every district is proposed.
- Tourism: skilling + digital knowledge infrastructure
- National Council for Hotel Management and Catering Technology is to be upgraded to a National Institute of Hospitality.
- A pilot to upskill 10,000 guides across 20 tourist sites is proposed via a standardised 12-week hybrid course (in collaboration with an Indian Institute of Management).
- A National Destination Digital Knowledge Grid is proposed to digitally document places of cultural, spiritual, and heritage significance.
- Heritage as “experience economy”
- 15 archaeological sites are proposed to be developed as experiential cultural destinations, including:
- Lothal, Dholavira, Rakhigarhi, Adichanallur, Sarnath, Hastinapur, Leh Palace.
- 15 archaeological sites are proposed to be developed as experiential cultural destinations, including:
- Sports
- A Khelo India Mission is proposed to transform the sports sector over the next decade.
- Development through targeted interventions
- 1) Farmer incomes
- Integrated development of 500 reservoirs and Amrit Sarovars is proposed.
- High-value agriculture support is proposed for coastal high-value crops like coconut, sandalwood, cocoa, cashew.
- A Coconut Promotion Scheme is proposed to lift production and productivity.
- Bharat-VISTAAR (a multilingual AI tool) is proposed to integrate:
- AgriStack portals and
- ICAR package on agricultural practices
- with AI systems.
- 2) Empowering Divyangjan
- Divyangjan Kaushal Yojana is proposed for task-oriented, process-driven roles in:
- IT,
- AVGC,
- hospitality,
- food and beverages.
- Divyangjan Kaushal Yojana is proposed for task-oriented, process-driven roles in:
- 3) Mental health + trauma care
- NIMHANS-2 is proposed in north India.
- National Mental Health Institutes in Ranchi and Tezpur are proposed to be upgraded as Regional Apex Institutions.
- 4) Purvodaya states + North-East
- An integrated East Coast Industrial Corridor is proposed with a well-connected node at Durgapur.
- 5 tourism destinations are proposed in the 5 Purvodaya states, along with 4,000 e-buses.
- A scheme is proposed for Buddhist circuits across:
- Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura.
- 1) Farmer incomes
- Federal transfers (Finance Commission channel)
- As recommended by the 16th Finance Commission, ₹1.4 lakh crore is provided to states in FY 2026–27 as Finance Commission grants.
