The Reforms Agenda
Business Today India|February 18, 2024
India will become unstoppable with five reforms in employment, employability and education in the next five years
MANISH SABHARWAL
The Reforms Agenda

SINCE 1947, A multitude of leading western observers doubted the ability of India a multicultural and multilingual democracy-to survive. However, not only did we defy our sceptics in standing united and democratic to our core, but we also emerged as a global leader across aspects of multilateralism, science, technology, medicine and combating climate change. Today, it gives me immense pleasure to pen down my vision for India as we march towards our 100 years of Independence-Amrit Kaal.

One of life's mysteries is whether luck, skill or choices matter more for success. But wise child Calvin (of Hobbes fame) suggests, "The secret to success is being in the right place at the right time. But since you never know the right time, I find the right place and hang out." India is in the right place at the right time over the next five years for our new tryst with destiny, combining mass prosperity with mass democracy. But five reforms to our 3Es (education, employment and employability) could accelerate this outcome over the next five years.

India's economic potential has always been higher than our delivery, and our problem is not jobs but wages. Economists suggest development is a game of Scrabble, where the government provides the vowels and the private sector offers the consonants; progress lies in making bigger, more, and new words. We have begun our better Scrabble; recent economic reforms (GST, IBC, UPI, Roads, DBT, Jan Vishwas, NEP, etc.) combine with luck (global ageing, China's self-goals, Covid-accelerated digitisation) to enable private entrepreneurship that creates more babies (small companies that grow) rather than dwarves (small companies that stay small). Capital is responding; more than 50% of India's foreign direct investment since 1947 has come in the last five years. We can accelerate this virtuous cycle with five reforms:

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