As a nation comprised of 80% villages, ensuring economic stability and access to basic necessities like drinking water, healthcare and education for the rural 
communities have become essential. Despite the explosive economic growth of India over the past several years, majority in India cannot read or write. Infant 
mortality is one of the highest in the sub-continent. Impoverished living 
conditions are becoming increasingly acute. The importance for the post 
independence generation to reverse this underlying trend of"valuesubtraction" and re-energize India has never been greater.

The NRI community has heard the call for Renaissance and started assembling the machinery needed to establish a powerful, self-sustaining engine that would revitalize the Indian subcontinent and drive towards prosperity. As progression in the western world continues to exceed the underdeveloped nations of our time, a widening gap between developed and developing nations is forming. Can we eliminate this gap? Is it too far fetched to believe that a bridge can be built between developing and developed nations to achieve a harmonious and prosperous outcome? Are the knowledge, capability, or passions of individual Indians who have settled elsewhere and grown prosperous any more than those remaining on the subcontinent, can they not too achieve this prosperity? These questions bring to light what tensile steel girders will be needed to build such a bridge. Who better to build this bridge than those who choose to drive across it from both abroad and from the subcontinent. The initiatives brought forth in the Boston Pledge are the pile drivers setting the foundations for this bridge of prosperity.