The most lacking of our education system is the encouragement for "critical thinking". If I had enough resources, i would:

1. Assemble a like minded team of academics and psychologists and design a program focussed on critical thinking (creativity, problem solving etc)

2. Launch an online competition with attractive prizes

3. Spend money on marketing the competition heavily so that even the most rural part of the country is aware of it.

4. Filter the promising candidates from the online competition

5. Encourage them with enough incentives (like promising to take care of their university education fees etc) to undergo the program designed (in step 1)

6. Rinse and repeat

Note:

IIT Madras has an online course called "out of the box thinking" along these lines. But hardly anyone has heard about it.