In a democracy many of the measures that are necessary for mass employment generation and of utility to the masses are branded as being populist. This budget is populist only because it proposes various schemes but fails to specify how they are to be financed.
While much is being said about jobs in rural areas, it is a fact that in many urban agglomerations job opportunities continue to be poor or non-existent. The situation in Mysore, Karnataka is a good example.
The corporate sector has an important role to play in re-engineering the Indian way of thinking. There is a theoretical basis also for expecting the corporate sector to provide many public goods and services that can help in reducing social problems in a diverse country such as India.
