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Indiaspora report maps diaspora role in India’s 2047 goals
The third impact report urges stronger diaspora ties via OCI reforms, dual citizenship, reduced participation barriers.
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Shinjini Ghosh - Mon, 23, Mar 2026
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The authors of the impact report - (from left to right): Sreekumar Nair, CEO India and Senior VP Indiaspora, Shobha Vishwanathan, Executive VP of development and chief community engagement officer, Indiaspora, Niranjana Rajagopal, leadership and and strategy advisor, Namrata Rajagopal, founder Exception Raised, MR Rangaswami, founder Indiaspora, Sanjeev Joshipura, executive director, Indiaspora. / Shinjini Ghosh
The second edition of the Indiaspora Forum kicked off March 23 in Bengaluru with the release of an impact report titled “India and its Diaspora: Partners in Progress, Supporting India’s Journey to 2047.”
This is the third such impact report being released by the Forum.
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Sanjeev Joshipura, executive director of Indiaspora and one of the co-authors of the report, said that the report talks about the role the global Indian diaspora has played so far and what they can do in the future as India heads toward its 2047 goals.
“We want to celebrate what the diaspora has done with India, but we also want to reimagine what they can do toward a developed India in 2047, a hundred years after she achieved independence. Both the diaspora and India, in different ways, are at inflection points, and that’s the why now (of the report being released),” Joshipura said.
Joshipura further added that the top three aspirations that respondents had for India in 2047 included witnessing India as an economic power, as a global power geopolitically and a leader in AI and technology.
Sanjeev Joshipura, executive director, Indiaspora along with Niranjana Rajagopal, one of the co-authors of the impact report. / Shinjini GhoshFor the report, more than 200 people from the global diaspora were surveyed, along with nearly 50 NGOs, including those in India. In addition to this, 40 experts from various fields across 12 countries were also interviewed.
Niranjana Rajagopal, who has co-authored the report, said, “One of the most interesting insights that emerged from our report was the fact that 60% of the diaspora that we surveyed stated that staying connected with their roots was the most important factor in engaging with India.”
Joshipura explained that the report includes recommendations for both India and the diaspora on what steps each can take to meet the India@100 goals.
The report recommends that, to boost diaspora engagement to meet India’s 2047 goals, diaspora communities should be recognized and meaningfully linked to India by having a more powerful Overseas Citizen of India card (OCI) and potential dual citizenship, and enable firsthand understanding of India’s realities and opportunities by increasing exposure to successive generations. The third aspect that the report highlighted is the fact that friction points need to be reduced for diaspora participation across business, philanthropy, academia and government.
Steps recommended for the diaspora to undertake include strengthening generational ties to India, coordinating locally for collective impact, shaping policy perspectives in their respective countries and bridging talent, capital and opportunity.
Highlighting the importance that the diaspora plays currently, Joshipura said, “The Indian diaspora right now is the largest in human history. There are 35 million people of Indian origin in more than 200 countries around the world.”
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