A new child is born and the family is happy. The hospital charges have been covered under the universal healthcare scheme. Government official visits the hospital and issues the birth certificate. Government opens a bank account and deposits a lump-sum amount in the name of baby so that parents/ guardian can buy good nutritious food, medicines and for other vital needs till the baby transforms into a valuable citizen and starts earning for themselves.
Kid attains the age of 4 years and receives joining letter to join the allotted school from the education department. Yes, parents need not pay for education. Kid studies and graduates with passing colors. He/She registers in the employment bureau and receives a call letter for a job. He/She passes the interview and receives appointment letter. He/She is covered under dignity of labor scheme to protect him/her from unforeseen aggression of the company. A portion of his/her salary is deducted towards universal health care scheme, children development fund, education fund and old age pension scheme.
He/She earns for food, clothing and shelter and saves some amount for the clothing and other needs of their kids. They also take care of old age parents using old age pension scheme.
The above is typical lifestyle of a salaried class person, of-course it can also include small and medium scale business men too.
Does this mean all schools and hospitals need to be nationalized? Absolutely not. Government can choose the good performing private schools and hospitals with reasonable cost of operation and fund their operation cost so that the management can pass over the benefits to their consumers.
Let the people who can afford for private education and healthcare do it so at their own risk. But affordable education and healthcare for every strata of society should be basic right of the every citizen.
The day when the quality of output from these public funded service related sectors exceeds to that of privately managed ones, we can surely feel proud of ourselves as a nation. Till then, we can feel happy to have won cricket world cups, number of Indian CEOs working for American MNC's, multi-crore collection w.r.t. cinemas from the favorite actor/ actress.
Kid attains the age of 4 years and receives joining letter to join the allotted school from the education department. Yes, parents need not pay for education. Kid studies and graduates with passing colors. He/She registers in the employment bureau and receives a call letter for a job. He/She passes the interview and receives appointment letter. He/She is covered under dignity of labor scheme to protect him/her from unforeseen aggression of the company. A portion of his/her salary is deducted towards universal health care scheme, children development fund, education fund and old age pension scheme.
He/She earns for food, clothing and shelter and saves some amount for the clothing and other needs of their kids. They also take care of old age parents using old age pension scheme.
The above is typical lifestyle of a salaried class person, of-course it can also include small and medium scale business men too.
Does this mean all schools and hospitals need to be nationalized? Absolutely not. Government can choose the good performing private schools and hospitals with reasonable cost of operation and fund their operation cost so that the management can pass over the benefits to their consumers.
Let the people who can afford for private education and healthcare do it so at their own risk. But affordable education and healthcare for every strata of society should be basic right of the every citizen.
The day when the quality of output from these public funded service related sectors exceeds to that of privately managed ones, we can surely feel proud of ourselves as a nation. Till then, we can feel happy to have won cricket world cups, number of Indian CEOs working for American MNC's, multi-crore collection w.r.t. cinemas from the favorite actor/ actress.
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