New Delhi, Dec. 15 -- India needs to rapidly scale up advanced manufacturing and frontier technologies to meet its long-term growth ambitions, Neeraj Huddar, Resident Fellow at NITI Aayog and Lead Architect of the NITI Frontier Tech Hub, said on Monday, warning that a business-as-usual approach could leave a multi-trillion-dollar gap in economic output.

Speaking at the CII Smart Manufacturing Summit in New Delhi, Huddar said, "The vision of Viksit Bharat targets manufacturing contributing 25% of GDP by 2047, but under current trajectories India would fall short by about $5.1 trillion."

"Bridging this gap will require transformative interventions anchored in advanced manufacturing, with focused action across key clusters such as engineer...