'Radical solutions to India's infrastructure deficit'

Infrastructure develops around industries.

State governments in their bid to attract industries compete with each other to provide infrastructure to the industries.

Instead infrastructure development should be made a mandatory prerequisite for setting up large and medium scale industries.

It is the business of corporate houses to set up industries and they, not the government, should develop the infrastructure.
One good example is Tatanagar, which developed around the Tata steel plant. But the same Tata company wanted an agriculture land in Singur which has good road connectivity, water and electricity facilities. Food is a necessity for all be they rich or poor. 

What ails science graduation course

The old system of composite BSc course has produced neither good scientists nor employable youth in the past century. The evidence is there, despite having a large pool of science graduates, India has published few original research papers. If we want Indian science to progress then we should take a different path and not one that has already failed.

We must be clear in our approach for the future generations. Not all the students who study science at undergraduate level need to undertake research. Most of them would like to be employable, for which they need ‘market driven’ courses.

 Those who are interested in research should be given a chance to study interdisciplinary subjects. An undergraduate student may not like all the sections of a subject; he/she may like mechanics but not electricity, organic chemistry but not physical chemistry. A student should be given more liberty and choices to study what interests him/her. A compulsive study of the old pattern repels rather than attract students towards the study of science and pursuing research.