this resource can be transformed through various educational and training programmes skilled unskilled and creative manpower can be transformed into wealth generators particularly in the service sectors agro industries etc knowledgeintensive industries can be generated out of our existing industries by injecting demand for highlevel softwarehardware which would bring tremendous value addition it is said the precious asset for a company or a country is the skill ingenuity and imagination of its people with globalisation this will become more important because many will have access to world class technology and the key distinguishing feature will be the ability of people in different countries to use their imagination to make the best use of the technology indeed development and innovative use of multiple technologies with mission projects and transparent management structure will give a thrust to propel india into a developed nation creative leadership for building the developed india what are needed we have natural resources and we have human power there are 700 million people below 35 years in the population of a billion people the nation needs young leaders who can command the change for transformation of india into a developed nation embedded with knowledge society from now to twenty years the leaders are the creators of new organizations of excellence quality leaders are like magnets that will attract the best of persons to build the team for the organization and give inspiring leadership even during failures of missions as they are not afraid of risks i have seen and worked with creators of vision and missions the vision ignites particularly the young mind one of the very important ingredients for success of the vision of transforming india into a developed nation by 2020 is the evolution of creative leaders i am giving a connectivity between missions of developed india economic prosperity technology production productivity employee role and management quality all of which linked to the creative leader who is that creative leader what are the qualities of a creative leader the creative leadership is exercising the task to change the traditional role from commander to coach manager to mentor from director to delegator and from one who demands respect to one who facilitate self respect the higher the proportion of creative leaders in a nation the higher the potential of success of visions like developed india concluding remarks with the vision and characteristics of creative leader defined what can be the tasks of various spectrum of people the student community can take the task during holidays to remove the illiteracy of certain number of people in their area where their schools or houses are situated only a burning candle can light another teachers and parents can assist them in this task the government and rd labs can provide technological upgradation to smallscale industries so that production can be increased and they become competitive the largescale industries have to increase