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BRICS INDIA 2026
Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation & Sustainability
India holds the BRICS Chairship in 2026, uniting member and partner nations around resilience, digital innovation, inclusive growth, and sustainable multilateral cooperation. This is the official digital gateway for updates, events, documents, and public information.
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2009FoundedYekaterinburg
9Member NationsFull Members
3Partner NationsObserver Partners
16Summits HeldSince Inception
India's Chairship 2026
Fostering BRICS Cooperation with a People-Centric Approach
“Our collective focus is to build a more resilient, inclusive, innovative, and sustainable future through meaningful cooperation.”
BRICS India 2026 focuses on strengthening cooperation across resilience, innovation, sustainability, economic collaboration, technology, and cultural exchange. This platform serves as the official digital gateway for updates, events, documents, media, and public information related to India's BRICS Chairship.
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Building for Resilience, Innovation,
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~30%
of Global GDP
45%
of World Population
~26%
of Land Area
BRICS India 2026
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India's BRICS Chairship 2026 Key Pillars
India's chairship focuses on five transformative priorities that will shape the future of multilateral cooperation — building resilience, fostering innovation, deepening cooperation, advancing sustainability, and ensuring inclusive growth across all BRICS nations.
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Innovation
Promoting digital public infrastructure, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, fintech, and knowledge sharing for inclusive and equitable growth.
Cooperation
Deepening multilateral engagement through policy coordination, institutional dialogue, and people-to-people partnerships across all BRICS nations.
Sustainability
Advancing climate action, clean energy transition, responsible development, and sustainable economic progress for current and future generations.
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First Meeting of BRICS Sherpas Under India's Chairship Concludes Successfully
The inaugural BRICS Sherpas meeting under India's 2026 chairship focused on key priorities of resilience, innovation, and sustainable development.
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BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. The grouping brings together major emerging market economies and developing nations representing a significant share of the world's population, land area, and global GDP. BRICS focuses on fostering multilateral cooperation, economic development, and reformed global governance.
BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) held its first summit in Yekaterinburg, Russia in June 2009. South Africa joined in 2010, officially making it BRICS. The group has since expanded in 2024 to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates.
The New Development Bank (NDB), formerly known as the BRICS Development Bank, is a multilateral development bank established by the BRICS nations. It was officially established in 2014 and began operations in 2016. The NDB finances sustainable infrastructure and development projects in BRICS and other emerging market countries.
The BRICS chairship rotates annually among member nations, following the BRICS alphabetical order. The chair country is responsible for organizing and hosting BRICS meetings, ministerial sessions, and the annual summit, as well as setting the thematic priorities for the year.
India's BRICS chairship theme for 2026 is "BRICS: Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability." The theme reflects India's vision of a BRICS partnership that strengthens multilateral resilience, promotes innovation and technology cooperation, deepens collaborative frameworks, and advances sustainable and inclusive development.