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It isn't - public schooling was in a far better shape/quality 40-50 years back, when the Indian Boomers were growing up.

This was a time of war and food-shortages; funding clearly is not the problem.

You realize literacy in India is still < 80% ? This is true even in the state of Karnataka, which possesses the so-called 'Silicon Valley' of India, BLR, which ironically is located in the midst of a vast plateau.

In comparison, China which started out it a much worse economic position (WWII, CCP..), and with a far more difficult writing system, has ended up today a >95% literacy rate.

I realize people like to downvote these pessimistic comments, just because 'India is the next superpower', the 'great hope of democracies' that will take PRC', but how this can happen without any groundwork is something I can't comprehend.

It takes a whole 20-25 years for a generation to grow up. The tiny sliver that is being reared are very good at servicing people by emigrating to other countries and this is how India (like Phillipines) earns much of its forex. How they can turn into a 'superpower' by turning themselves into a country of glorified serfs is beyond my understanding.

Worse yet, Indians themselves are sucked up to this drunken madness instead of focusing on real problems that have remained unsolved over the past ~80 years either due to political incompetence, or worse conscious decision-making.

I don't see where the welfare state is.

- Public schooling, unusable.

- Public health, unusable.

- Public infrastructure, unusable.

I have no clue where my taxes are going, but it sure as hell isn't being spent for "welfare".

Public schools have been abandoned by everyone but the very poorest - the facilities are terrible even by 3rd world standards, and worse, the public schools push the eduction in the native languages, which is (very sadly) next to worthless economically in India.

The above disempowerment of India's natives, their culture and languages, is the direct result of the Indian state continuing colonial policies of very unfairly advantaging the Anglicized elites, educationally, socially, politically and thus economically.

Now that the state has completely failed in its duties, yet again, it has passed a new RTE act, in which it further burdens private schools, targeting esp. those run by Hindus. The Indian state in all its 'secular' glory, decided also to favor the Christian missionary schools, the very ones that were instrumental in destroying the country (and China), by sparing them of the same burdens.

https://swarajyamag.com/magazine/the-evidence-is-compelling-...

https://swarajyamag.com/politics/rte-benefits-minority-schoo...

The Indian political estd. and the state is disgusting. Quite frankly, the British for all their faults, atleast knew how to keep a public-schooling and university system running. The 'Brown Babus' are little more than self-conceited idiots wearing fancy suits.