The essence of whether you have a strategy will be what you have chosen not to do. The great challenge for India is to get more and more people productively employed in economic activity, thereby raising standards of living. The only way to do this would be to build a competitive, sound, economic base. Only then can you create the millions of jobs in manufacturing and services that are going to be necessary. You can provide all the social support you want but it will not be sustainable unless people make a productive living.
It never works to distort the market by artificially subsidising certain parts of society. For example, India has an inefficient railroad system because the fares for personal travel are artificially low and drive up the cost of moving freight, which means fewer jobs in the corporate sector. Distorting the market for the benefit of the poor is a costly and temporary way to help them. It's better to address fundamental competitiveness issues and try to improve the productivity of the economy. If you have to support the poor, you have to do it directly, through cash subsidies that allow them to buy goods at market prices.
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