India set up a govt education & health system, from the village up, starting from the 1950s. Why is it that the leftists & socialists who dominated the public discourse, & whose advocacy for poor was no 1 priority on every issue, never bothered about quality for 1st 50yrs?
https://twitter.com/HindolSengupta/status/1306832803854655489
2/soc Many of us on the economic right have been analysing & writing about quality of the govt education & health system for couple of decades. We found that the poor quality, was due to the administrative inefficiency and systemic corruption of the entire social welfare system.
3/soc One of the conclusions I came to was that the only way to ensure quality in a democracy of 1.4bi was digital connectivity of villages/habitation & e-education, e-medicine, e-transfers (DBT, DCT). refrn planningcommission.nic.in/reports/wrkpap… and google.com/url?q=http%3A%…
4/soc Arvind Virmani, "A New Development Paradigm: Employment, Entitlement and Empowerment, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXVII No. 22, June 1-7, 2002, pp. 2145-2154. [ docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid… ]
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