As India pushes toward its ambitious ‘Viksit Bharat 2047’ vision, World Bank India’s Executive Director Neelkanth Mishra has offered a detailed blueprint on what the country must achieve economically to be officially considered a developed nation and why the next two decades could be decisive. In a recent opinion piece, Mishra argued that for India to attain high-income or developed nation status by 2047, the country will need to sustain one of the fastest long-term growth trajectories in modern economic history, while overcoming demographic and structural challenges that could slow progress permanently.