Rupayan

Implementation of Actionable Ideas for a New Formation

Implementation of Actionable ideas for a new formation- a self-reliant, independent, inclusive, growing, Happy, Healthy and United India with zero unemployment.

🚀 Strategic Focus Areas

To envisage such a new India🇮🇳 where common man’s needs and aspirations is of prime importance, the focus has to be primarily on five sectors like, Education and Skill Development; Healthcare; Infrastructural Development; and Triveni Sangam of labour intensive sectors like Agriculture, Textile and Manufacturing as significant steps towards achieving zero unemployment in India and its states.

Rupayan – Actionable Sectors

Three Pillars for Building a New Formation & Zero Unemployment

1. Education and Skill Development

Reforms in Education and Skill Development, would start from the roots, that is primary schools. Apart from ensuring good infrastructure in primary schools, we need to focus on good teacher- student ratio for imparting good value education as most of the cognitive development in any child happens before the age of 10 years.

While students are undergoing Middle schooling and Secondary schooling, sports education, skill mapping and skill development in their interest areas need to be introduced. And students need to be given exposure to the probable job opportunities available so as to sensitise them with the wide variety of job opportunities available in various sectors in India. This would help in not limiting themselves to restricted job opportunities like- doctors, engineers, lawyers, teachers and corporate sector.

Based on their skill profiling, efforts need to be given to groom and hone the skills of students apart from providing good education so that the students graduate in academics and a skill of their choice by the time they graduate.

The recent instances of gradually declining expenditure on education ;abysmally low teacher- student ratio in schools, lack of infrastructure, paper leak in important nation wide examinations., error in OSM of CBSE students, deeply rooted corruption in Education and rising level of unemployment become more than the reasons for need for Educational reforms while enhancing the Employability .

2. Healthcare

Over the last decade, the allocation for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India’s Union Budget has hovered roughly between 1.9% and 2.4% of the total government expenditure, showing a slight post-pandemic contraction from its peak years back toward baseline levels near 1.96% to 2.05%.

Budget Trends and Allocations

Pre-Pandemic Era (2014–2019): Health expenditure stayed tightly bound around 1.8% to 2.1% of the total aggregate Union budget expenditures.
Pandemic Peak (2020–2022): Allocations experienced a relative bump, rising up to a high of approximately 2.26% to 2.36% of total public spending during peak COVID-19 management phases.
Recent Years (2023–2026): As emergency funding scaled down, the proportion receded back to roughly 1.96% to 2.05% of the overall budget outlays, even though nominal cash allocations crossed ₹1 lakh crore.

Contextual Metrics

As a share of GDP: The Union government’s standalone health expenditure has consistently hovered around 0.3% to 0.5% of GDP, falling short of the broader National Health Policy recommendations which target a combined Centre-State public health expenditure of 2.5% of GDP.

This trend suggests that the union government and state governments have to increase the spending in health care services by manifold while eyeing for a happy and healthy India 🇮🇳.

The present scenario in healthcare sector, suggests that there is a huge scope for engaging more human capital in health care services :

I) Need to increase the number of Asha workers for better doorstep delivery of healthcare facilities at the grassroots;
II) Need to provide all the basic health care facilities at PHC ( primary health care centers), which is not happening now due to unavailability of good doctors. In some cases, pharmacists instead of doctors are managing the PHCs in reality and not on pen and paper.
iii) At present, the centrally sponsored government health care schemes like Ayushman and select state sponsored schemes, have not been able to address the healthcare related challenges of common people completely. Common people are therefore now going to private clinics for secondary and tertiary health care. With the advent of such government sponsored health care schemes, the government healthcare facilities are not working up to their full potential. In some instances, select doctors are found missing in some government facilities. As a result, common people are being referred to private hospitals and people therefore have to bear huge amount as their out-of- pocket expenses leading to their indebtedness.

Against this backdrop, it is suggested that the government healthcare facilities have to strengthened in terms of infrastructure, machinery, medical equipment’s and availability of good doctors and healthcare professionals, which requires more spending by the government in healthcare.

‘Prevention is better than cure’. The Government therefore needs to spend heavily on preventive health care.

Infrastructure Development and good professionals in schools and healthcare facilities should encourage student retention and win patients’s trust in the government’s healthcare facilities.

🌾🧵🏭 3. Triveni Sangam of Labor-Intensive Sectors

The Government’s thrust on Triveni Sangam of three sectors like Agriculture, Textile and manufacturing, will be the answer to reducing unemployment and move towards zero unemployment to a large extent as these three sectors have the potential of absorbing huge manpower.