India celebrated her 75th Independence Day on 15th August 2021. In March 2021 the government of India announced the celebration of its “Azadi ki Amrit Mahotsav”, a two-year-long nationwide initiative to commemorate the milestone. India‟s economy has travelled many ups and downs since independence. Once branded as a „third world country‟ a term used for underdeveloped countries, India is now among the biggest economies of the world. There is still a long journey for India to be a successful economy. The journey of India‟s development over the last 75 years has seen significant milestones and reforms that enabled it to achieve substantial progress in many areas including raise in income levels, growth, literacy, life expectancy and a wide variety of other economic indicators. As India commemorates 75 glorious years as an independent nation, let‟s look back at some of the significant achievements of our economy over the years.