India-Japan Joint Vision for Next Decade: Focus on Supply Chains, Digital DPI, and Global South
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure | SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
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The Ministry of External Affairs provided a Parliamentary response on India-Japan Joint Vision for the Next Decade, adopted during the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit (August 29-30, 2025, in Tokyo). It outlines a comprehensive framework to elevate the bilateral partnership. The vision is built on four major pillars designed to strengthen strategic autonomy, economic resilience, and global leadership.
Major Pillars and Strategic Priorities:
Next Generation Economic Partnership:
Focuses on establishing resilient supply chains for key goods and materials, enhancing market diversification.
Includes a Next Generation Mobility Partnership aimed at fostering infrastructure, logistics, and mobility cooperation, serving the Make in India for the World vision.
Next Generation Innovation and Technology Partnership:
Aims to accelerate collaboration between SMEs and startups in advanced sectors.
Specific focus areas include space, agriculture, clean energy, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology.
The India-Japan SME Forum was inaugurated (November 21, 2025) to foster industry-to-industry cooperation.
Next Generation Sustainable Development and Global Cooperation Partnership:
Emphasizes the promotion of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for sectors like financial inclusion, health, and education.
The initiative explicitly aims to strengthen Indiaβs economic engagement with the Global South through joint development projects, infrastructure financing, and triangular cooperation frameworks.
Next Generation People-to-People Partnership:
Promotes the exchange of skilled personnel, researchers, and students through an Action Plan for India-Japan Human Resource Exchange and Cooperation.
Aims to foster commercial, business, and official linkages between Indian States and Japanese Prefectures.
Policy Relevance
This Joint Vision formalizes a deep strategic convergence beyond traditional security and finance, focusing on emerging 21st-century issues like DPI, resilient supply chains, and green technology. The policy is critical for India as it secures a key partner for advanced technology transfer and private investment in its strategic manufacturing sectors, while leveraging Japanβs financial strength and expertise to strengthen Indiaβs economic engagement with the Global South through triangular cooperation.
Relevant Question for Policy Stakeholders: What specific governance and financial mechanisms will the Ministry of External Affairs establish to ensure India-Japan triangular cooperation effectively delivers DPI solutions to countries in the Global South?
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