Published: 11:25 PM, 16 September 2026
Outcome of BRICS Summit 2026
18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi took place on September 12 and September 13, 2026. The venue being Mandapam, South Delhi.
BRICS basically is the acronym of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. In this Summit there were participation by 11 full members and 10 partner nations.
Among the 11 full numbers, the names of the nations, like Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates.
Whereas 10 partner nations, the names of the nations, like Belarus, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
All these nations have contributed immensely towards the growth and prosperity of the BRICS conglomerate. My focusing area in concurrence to my column, is that how far the summit is beneficial towards societal upliftment.
At the present juncture we find that the global population is estimated to be around 8 billion. Out of the above, we find that the number of poverty stricken is around 830 million. Though the above figures are shocking. But as I hail from the South Asian Sub-Continent, I feel that I must focus upon the South Asian perspective.
As per my availability of data I do have. The total number of populations in the South Asian Subcontinent is around 2 billion people. These figures amount to 25% of the global population. Overall the South Asian Sub-Continent consists of eight nations. Among the eight nations of the South Asian Sub-Continent, India and Sri Lanka are rated as developed in comparison to others.
As I have stated above South Asian Sub-Continent, let me retrace back to my basic thoughts about what kind of impact BRICS 2026 has thrown upon society. About other nations of the globe, development no doubt has taken place. But a worrisome situation lies upon South Asia.
Now let me examine deeply what expectations do the South Asian citizens have from BRICS.
Among all the nations of South Asia, India plays a prolific role. Followed by other nations, such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan etc. The expectations are multifarious. Among all the expectations, it is found that economic development seems to be the fundamental among others.
Though focusing has been made on economics, science and technology. Among the above, importance has been given to the economic aspect. Thereby key issues on economic aspect are stated as follow:
1) Diversification of Development finance:
This is further subdivided into two parts, such as
A) Access to the New Development Bank (NDB)-Citizens of the globe always heaved upon expectations for infrastructure on various economic segments and climate resilient funding. NDB provides the hapless citizens structural and geopolitical support in comparison to traditional Western nations.
B) Local currency trade-Despite having severe dollar shortages in Sri Lanka and Pakistan, there lies expectations from other BRICS member nations, trade settlements in local currencies, keeping the Western currencies in severe tenterhooks. If the emphasis is given to local currencies, then it eases business transactions smoothly without any hurdles.
2) Cross Border technology and Digital Infrastructure:
This is divided into two parts, such as,
A) Technological Transfers-Citizens among South Asian neighbours, expect an economic framework for proper low digital governance tools along with open-source technical models.
B) Impact of AI-There is a shared demand for collaborative governance on Artificial Intelligence (AI) along with digital economics to upgrade small scale businesses and rural sectors.
3) Climate Action and Energy Security-
This is subdivided into two parts,
A) Climate Finance-Climate finance means which is financed by local, national or international funding, from private and public parties. These are utilized to support against climate change.
B) Resilient Energy Corridors- Resilient Energy Corridors have been defined as such, the corridors which are structured transmission and supply frameworks designed to securely connect resource rich generation zones with major demand centers provided withstanding geopolitical, climatic or technical disruptions.
Summing up my above supposition, international seminars of this pattern do not sound logical at all under the prevailing circumstances. India, being a vast nation, is in the midst of severe tenterhooks from multiple aspects. There are several talented souls hovering around the nation, who are victims of opportunism and nepotism. These situations have to be avoided at any cost. Couple of days five innocent lives, being talented students, lost their lives, due to the collapse of a building adjacent to Delhi University South Campus. Our administrators are knavish persons, hence innocents are the worst sufferers.
Thus organizing a seminar on the pattern of BRICS does not suffice at all. It was just a waste of money to our exchequer. Hope positive sense should prevail, but when we find this moment arises in our life, it is indeed a debatable proposition to our mind.
Sujayendra Das is a columnist
based in Calcutta, India.
