Priority for human development

The Union government should allow federalism to function more effectively if it wishes to push human development

There is much discussion now about India becoming a developed country by 2047 or before. For this to happen, we will need changes in several areas of development policy. The top two areas of policy where substantial change was required would be human development, particularly education and health, and technology innovation. In some ways the second depends to a significant extent on the first and hence my focus on priority for human development. The national accounts data shows that in 2021-22 education and health had a modest size in our economy, accounting for 4 per cent and 1.6 per cent,