Jobs and outcomes

If hundreds of thousands of additional professionals can be harnessed to provide these services, we would do a great service to the nation while also providing jobs to the technically qualified

A potentially powerful feature of the Congress party’s manifesto with respect to jobs is its proposal to expand employment through expansion of health and education services. It “pledges to create lakhs of jobs for qualified teachers, doctors, nurses, paramedics, technicians, instructors and administrators through a massive expansion of the education and health sectors.”

There is no doubt that there is great need to increase the quantity and quality of education and health services in India at all levels. We need to spread such services to a very large section of the population that is still under-served.

Unlike manufacturing industries, these