Alternative Development Agenda for India

This book provides a revamped, transformative, and fiscally sustainable developmental agenda for India to radically improve the well-being and livelihoods of its citizens.

List of contents

1. The 'People First' Imperative
2. Universalizing Healthcare
3. Battling Malnutrition and Food Insecurity
4. Ensuring Quality Schooling
5. Caring for the Young Child
6. Improving Livelihoods, Creating Jobs
7. Unshackling Gendered Mindsets
8. Promoting Planned Urbanization
9. The Way Forward: Principles, Actions and Sustainability

About the author

Sanjay Kaul is a development policy analyst, a former IAS officer (1979-2007), and corporate leader (2008-21). He has over four decades of rich professional experience in both the government and the private sectors. During his long tenure as a civil servant, Kaul worked in leadership positions across sectors - development, health, nutrition, education, child development, food and agriculture, and industry, including in the Prime Minister's office. He also had a successful long tenure in the private sector as head of a leading agri-business company. His current interests include human development concerns. He was recently appointed Chairman of the Government of India Task Force on Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) and is an advisor on ECCE to the Government of Karnataka as well. He serves as a member of the Managing Committee of five schools managed by the Delhi Public School Society. He is also presently an Independent Director of SEWA GRIH RIN Ltd. (SGRL), an affordable housing finance company.

Summary

This book provides a revamped, transformative, and fiscally sustainable developmental agenda for India to radically improve the well-being and livelihoods of its citizens.

Product details

• Authors: Sanjay Kaul, Kaul Sanjay
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032224800
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3222480-0
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Anthropology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, India, Politics & government, Politics and government, Society and culture: general, Development Studies