Discuss how the India–UK Vision 2035 reshapes bilateral cooperation in technology and critical minerals.

Endorsed on 24 July 2025 alongside the India–UK CETA, Vision 2035 restructures a largely trade-centric relationship into a durable strategic partnership built on five pillars, elevating technology and critical minerals from peripheral items to core bilateral agendas [1].

Deepening technology and innovation cooperation

• Vision 2035 makes Technology & Innovation a standalone pillar, moving beyond commerce toward co-development in emerging tech, digital systems and clean energy [1].
• It institutionalises collaboration through a technology-security track and an education and skills partnership — transnational campuses and university tie-ups building lasting R&D and talent linkages [1].
• Sits within a wider architecture — the CETA and a Defence Industrial Roadmap — embedding technology in strategic, not merely transactional, terms [1].

Securing critical mineral supply chains

• Operationalised via the Critical Minerals Global Supply Chain Observatory (GSCO), launched 4 June 2026 by Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy and UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper [2].
• GSCO offers a data-driven platform for supply-risk mapping, market intelligence and foresight, de-risking inputs for EVs, solar PV and defence [2].
• It reinforces India's National Critical Mineral Mission (₹34,300 cr, seven-year outlay) and helps diversify away from single-source (China) dependence across the 30 identified critical minerals [3][4].

By pairing structured technology collaboration with mineral-supply resilience, Vision 2035 shifts India–UK ties from episodic diplomacy to a durable strategic partnership, advancing India's clean-energy transition and self-reliance goals in line with SDG-7.