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The present study attempts to look into the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan and Skill India Mission in the light of the Endogenous Growth Model and the New Growth Theory. I employ the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS)-based Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to estimate the determinants of economic growth of India in the long-run for the period 1960 to 2014. The choice of the study period is based on data availability and also on the fact that 2014 has been threshold year for India. A number of institutional reforms have been undertaken in the country since the year 2014. Human capital followed by physical capital and openness are found to be main determinants of growth for the period 1960-2014. The institutional variables are insignificant during the study period. Since 2014 there has been a shift in political regime which has ushered a new wave of institutional reforms. The study tries to justify the ongoing reforms undertaken to address the weak institutional quality observed in our period of study.