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These opportunities are presented by the commencement of Rajiv Awas Yojana, a property-rights driven effort at moving towards a slum-free India and increasing interest of both the state in India and Indian capital to invest in higher education, skill development, healthcare and medical education. Collectively, these provide a canvas of reconfiguring select urban locations as social development zones.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) announced as a key initiative of the Union government to move towards a slum-free India was cleared by the Cabinet last week. It provides a framework for the government of India support to state governments for upgrading housing and economic and social infrastructure if states legislate to assign property rights to people living in slums, now estimated as 25% of urban population.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It prefers in situ rehabilitation as against relocation. However, it also provides for property rights and not land rights so that development of socio-economic infrastructure is made possible also by vertical construction, thereby easing a portion of the land from current use as housing stock. This, therefore, provides an opportunity for partnership with the private sector to develop the land that is freed up, provided they partner in the effort to improve housing stock and infrastructure under Rajiv Awas Yojana.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If we examine sectors of education and health, there is a new interest in Indian capital to invest in education, especially higher education, skill development, hospital care and medical education. One of the biggest problem prospective investors face is shortage of land in cities. Therefore, the carrot that could now be dangled by the state is the offer of urban land in lieu of setting up affordable health and education facilities, thereby &amp;quot;crowding in&amp;quot; social infrastructure in the areas mentioned and make erstwhile slums SDZs and people living there have property rights and improved homes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It will require investments in improving housing stock and infrastructure upfront and allays apprehensions that it may be a repeat of experience where land was taken on promises of a certain percentage of free treatment to poor patients and breached in practice. The land should be made available only on the basis of competitive bidding from credible partners interested in education and healthcare.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The 11th Plan, which set up central universities in remote locations to respond to regional equity, has in several locations been unable to attract faculty because of the absence of basic social infrastructure. This begs the question if students from that area would not have been better off with provision of generous scholarships to be admitted in better-functioning existing institutions. Space requirements prescribed to start an educational facility needs to be re-examined when located in the proposed SDZs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After all, global centres of academic excellence such as the Columbia and New York universities in the US or the London School of Economics are located in central locations of New York and London. Similarly, private healthcare and private medical education pracare costly, on account of cost of land, among other factors. &lt;br /&gt;
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This has created a situation where those who can afford to swing the purchase of land become the providers of education and health. As SDZs could promote construction of &amp;quot;budget&amp;quot; hospitals and a cheaper medical education model by making the scarcest of resources - that of land - available on much easier terms. If RAY unlocks land, state governments can move in to create SDZs on its own or in partnership to add vital infrastructure for education, skill training, health and medical education utilising the land.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This also will close the option of real estate interests cornering prime urban land as in the case of some SEZs. Let Dharavi be the home for a new Bombay School of Economics, a budget hospital and skill training centres instead of just a glint in the eye of real estate developers. SDZs have the immediate benefit of wiping away at one stroke many factors that inhibit investments in education, skill development and health by addressing not only the issue of land, but attracting competent academic faculty that benefits from the pre-existing availability of social and economic infrastructure of the cities.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Imaginative policies for scholarships can address the social inclusion issue through reservations for talent from rural areas. Skill training for urban youth can be ensured by making skill development infrastructure part of any new educational investment.&lt;br /&gt;
In return for land value to be negotiated by the state through competitive bidding from technically proficient providers of education and health, willing to invest in improvement of housing stock and infrastructure for current slum-dwellers. Cheaper access to some of these facilities for the residents could also become part of outreach. If state governments move proactively in this area, hundreds of good institutions for education, health and skill training can be nucleated through the proposed SDZ model. This merely connects a few dots in policy to create a surge in social development investment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The continuing wrangles over the Forest Rights Act reveal that vesting the poor with rights, has a complex territory to negotiate. The hope is that the more articulate urban poor who understand that &amp;quot;crumbs of bread, are well, crumbs of bread, and not the whole loaf&amp;quot;, may be able to wrest more, beginning with property rights under RAY.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
It prefers in situ rehabilitation as against relocation. However, it also provides for property rights and not land rights so that development of socio-economic infrastructure is made possible also by vertical construction, thereby easing a portion of the land from current use as housing stock. This, therefore, provides an opportunity for partnership with the private sector to develop the land that is freed up, provided they partner in the effort to improve housing stock and infrastructure under Rajiv Awas Yojana.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If we examine sectors of education and health, there is a new interest in Indian capital to invest in education, especially higher education, skill development, hospital care and medical education. One of the biggest problem prospective investors face is shortage of land in cities. Therefore, the carrot that could now be dangled by the state is the offer of urban land in lieu of setting up affordable health and education facilities, thereby &amp;quot;crowding in&amp;quot; social infrastructure in the areas mentioned and make erstwhile slums SDZs and people living there have property rights and improved homes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It will require investments in improving housing stock and infrastructure upfront and allays apprehensions that it may be a repeat of experience where land was taken on promises of a certain percentage of free treatment to poor patients and breached in practice. The land should be made available only on the basis of competitive bidding from credible partners interested in education and healthcare.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The 11th Plan, which set up central universities in remote locations to respond to regional equity, has in several locations been unable to attract faculty because of the absence of basic social infrastructure. This begs the question if students from that area would not have been better off with provision of generous scholarships to be admitted in better-functioning existing institutions. Space requirements prescribed to start an educational facility needs to be re-examined when located in the proposed SDZs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
This also will close the option of real estate interests cornering prime urban land as in the case of some SEZs. Let Dharavi be the home for a new Bombay School of Economics, a budget hospital and skill training centres instead of just a glint in the eye of real estate developers. SDZs have the immediate benefit of wiping away at one stroke many factors that inhibit investments in education, skill development and health by addressing not only the issue of land, but attracting competent academic faculty that benefits from the pre-existing availability of social and economic infrastructure of the cities.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Imaginative policies for scholarships can address the social inclusion issue through reservations for talent from rural areas. Skill training for urban youth can be ensured by making skill development infrastructure part of any new educational investment.&lt;br /&gt;
In return for land value to be negotiated by the state through competitive bidding from technically proficient providers of education and health, willing to invest in improvement of housing stock and infrastructure for current slum-dwellers. Cheaper access to some of these facilities for the residents could also become part of outreach. If state governments move proactively in this area, hundreds of good institutions for education, health and skill training can be nucleated through the proposed SDZ model. This merely connects a few dots in policy to create a surge in social development investment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The continuing wrangles over the Forest Rights Act reveal that vesting the poor with rights, has a complex territory to negotiate. The hope is that the more articulate urban poor who understand that &amp;quot;crumbs of bread, are well, crumbs of bread, and not the whole loaf&amp;quot;, may be able to wrest more, beginning with property rights under RAY.&lt;br /&gt;
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This begs the question if students from that area would not have been better off with provision of generous scholarships to be admitted in better-functioning existing institutions. Space requirements prescribed to start an educational facility needs to be re-examined when located in the proposed SDZs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, global centres of academic excellence such as the Columbia and New York universities in the US or the London School of Economics are located in central locations of New York and London. Similarly, private healthcare and private medical education pracare costly, on account of cost of land, among other factors. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This has created a situation where those who can afford to swing the purchase of land become the providers of education and health. As SDZs could promote construction of &amp;quot;budget&amp;quot; hospitals and a cheaper medical education model by making the scarcest of resources - that of land - available on much easier terms. If RAY unlocks land, state governments can move in to create SDZs on its own or in partnership to add vital infrastructure for education, skill training, health and medical education utilising the land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This also will close the option of real estate interests cornering prime urban land as in the case of some SEZs. Let Dharavi be the home for a new Bombay School of Economics, a budget hospital and skill training centres instead of just a glint in the eye of real estate developers. SDZs have the immediate benefit of wiping away at one stroke many factors that inhibit investments in education, skill development and health by addressing not only the issue of land, but attracting competent academic faculty that benefits from the pre-existing availability of social and economic infrastructure of the cities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imaginative policies for scholarships can address the social inclusion issue through reservations for talent from rural areas. Skill training for urban youth can be ensured by making skill development infrastructure part of any new educational investment.&lt;br /&gt;In return for land value to be negotiated by the state through competitive bidding from technically proficient providers of education and health, willing to invest in improvement of housing stock and infrastructure for current slum-dwellers. Cheaper access to some of these facilities for the residents could also become part of outreach. 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                <br /><div align="justify">Social development zones (SDZs) represent a new approach to creating education and health institutions in the country connecting emerging opportunities in policy. These also address some major constraints that Indian private investment faces today in investing in these two critical sectors of development that directly impact on unlocking human potential.<br /><br />These opportunities are presented by the commencement of Rajiv Awas Yojana, a property-rights driven effort at moving towards a slum-free India and increasing interest of both the state in India and Indian capital to invest in higher education, skill development, healthcare and medical education. Collectively, these provide a canvas of reconfiguring select urban locations as social development zones.<br /><br />Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) announced as a key initiative of the Union government to move towards a slum-free India was cleared by the Cabinet last week. It provides a framework for the government of India support to state governments for upgrading housing and economic and social infrastructure if states legislate to assign property rights to people living in slums, now estimated as 25% of urban population.<br /><br />It prefers in situ rehabilitation as against relocation. However, it also provides for property rights and not land rights so that development of socio-economic infrastructure is made possible also by vertical construction, thereby easing a portion of the land from current use as housing stock. This, therefore, provides an opportunity for partnership with the private sector to develop the land that is freed up, provided they partner in the effort to improve housing stock and infrastructure under Rajiv Awas Yojana.<br /><br />If we examine sectors of education and health, there is a new interest in Indian capital to invest in education, especially higher education, skill development, hospital care and medical education. One of the biggest problem prospective investors face is shortage of land in cities. Therefore, the carrot that could now be dangled by the state is the offer of urban land in lieu of setting up affordable health and education facilities, thereby &quot;crowding in&quot; social infrastructure in the areas mentioned and make erstwhile slums SDZs and people living there have property rights and improved homes.<br /><br />It will require investments in improving housing stock and infrastructure upfront and allays apprehensions that it may be a repeat of experience where land was taken on promises of a certain percentage of free treatment to poor patients and breached in practice. The land should be made available only on the basis of competitive bidding from credible partners interested in education and healthcare.<br /><br />The 11th Plan, which set up central universities in remote locations to respond to regional equity, has in several locations been unable to attract faculty because of the absence of basic social infrastructure. This begs the question if students from that area would not have been better off with provision of generous scholarships to be admitted in better-functioning existing institutions. Space requirements prescribed to start an educational facility needs to be re-examined when located in the proposed SDZs.<br /><br />After all, global centres of academic excellence such as the Columbia and New York universities in the US or the London School of Economics are located in central locations of New York and London. Similarly, private healthcare and private medical education pracare costly, on account of cost of land, among other factors. <br /><br />This has created a situation where those who can afford to swing the purchase of land become the providers of education and health. As SDZs could promote construction of &quot;budget&quot; hospitals and a cheaper medical education model by making the scarcest of resources - that of land - available on much easier terms. If RAY unlocks land, state governments can move in to create SDZs on its own or in partnership to add vital infrastructure for education, skill training, health and medical education utilising the land.<br /><br />This also will close the option of real estate interests cornering prime urban land as in the case of some SEZs. Let Dharavi be the home for a new Bombay School of Economics, a budget hospital and skill training centres instead of just a glint in the eye of real estate developers. SDZs have the immediate benefit of wiping away at one stroke many factors that inhibit investments in education, skill development and health by addressing not only the issue of land, but attracting competent academic faculty that benefits from the pre-existing availability of social and economic infrastructure of the cities.<br /><br />Imaginative policies for scholarships can address the social inclusion issue through reservations for talent from rural areas. Skill training for urban youth can be ensured by making skill development infrastructure part of any new educational investment.<br />In return for land value to be negotiated by the state through competitive bidding from technically proficient providers of education and health, willing to invest in improvement of housing stock and infrastructure for current slum-dwellers. Cheaper access to some of these facilities for the residents could also become part of outreach. 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These opportunities are presented by the commencement of Rajiv Awas Yojana, a property-rights driven effort at moving towards a slum-free India and increasing interest of both the state in India and Indian capital to invest in higher education, skill development, healthcare and medical education. Collectively, these provide a canvas of reconfiguring select urban locations as social development zones.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
If we examine sectors of education and health, there is a new interest in Indian capital to invest in education, especially higher education, skill development, hospital care and medical education. One of the biggest problem prospective investors face is shortage of land in cities. Therefore, the carrot that could now be dangled by the state is the offer of urban land in lieu of setting up affordable health and education facilities, thereby &amp;quot;crowding in&amp;quot; social infrastructure in the areas mentioned and make erstwhile slums SDZs and people living there have property rights and improved homes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It will require investments in improving housing stock and infrastructure upfront and allays apprehensions that it may be a repeat of experience where land was taken on promises of a certain percentage of free treatment to poor patients and breached in practice. The land should be made available only on the basis of competitive bidding from credible partners interested in education and healthcare.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
This also will close the option of real estate interests cornering prime urban land as in the case of some SEZs. Let Dharavi be the home for a new Bombay School of Economics, a budget hospital and skill training centres instead of just a glint in the eye of real estate developers. SDZs have the immediate benefit of wiping away at one stroke many factors that inhibit investments in education, skill development and health by addressing not only the issue of land, but attracting competent academic faculty that benefits from the pre-existing availability of social and economic infrastructure of the cities.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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Social development zones (SDZs) represent a new approach to creating education and health institutions in the country connecting emerging opportunities in policy. These also address some major constraints that Indian private investment faces today in investing in these two critical sectors of development that directly impact on unlocking human potential.&lt;br /&gt;
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These opportunities are presented by the commencement of Rajiv Awas Yojana, a property-rights driven effort at moving towards a slum-free India and increasing interest of both the state in India and Indian capital to invest in higher education, skill development, healthcare and medical education. Collectively, these provide a canvas of reconfiguring select urban locations as social development zones.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) announced as a key initiative of the Union government to move towards a slum-free India was cleared by the Cabinet last week. It provides a framework for the government of India support to state governments for upgrading housing and economic and social infrastructure if states legislate to assign property rights to people living in slums, now estimated as 25% of urban population.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It prefers in situ rehabilitation as against relocation. However, it also provides for property rights and not land rights so that development of socio-economic infrastructure is made possible also by vertical construction, thereby easing a portion of the land from current use as housing stock. This, therefore, provides an opportunity for partnership with the private sector to develop the land that is freed up, provided they partner in the effort to improve housing stock and infrastructure under Rajiv Awas Yojana.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If we examine sectors of education and health, there is a new interest in Indian capital to invest in education, especially higher education, skill development, hospital care and medical education. One of the biggest problem prospective investors face is shortage of land in cities. Therefore, the carrot that could now be dangled by the state is the offer of urban land in lieu of setting up affordable health and education facilities, thereby &amp;quot;crowding in&amp;quot; social infrastructure in the areas mentioned and make erstwhile slums SDZs and people living there have property rights and improved homes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It will require investments in improving housing stock and infrastructure upfront and allays apprehensions that it may be a repeat of experience where land was taken on promises of a certain percentage of free treatment to poor patients and breached in practice. The land should be made available only on the basis of competitive bidding from credible partners interested in education and healthcare.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The 11th Plan, which set up central universities in remote locations to respond to regional equity, has in several locations been unable to attract faculty because of the absence of basic social infrastructure. This begs the question if students from that area would not have been better off with provision of generous scholarships to be admitted in better-functioning existing institutions. Space requirements prescribed to start an educational facility needs to be re-examined when located in the proposed SDZs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After all, global centres of academic excellence such as the Columbia and New York universities in the US or the London School of Economics are located in central locations of New York and London. Similarly, private healthcare and private medical education pracare costly, on account of cost of land, among other factors. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This has created a situation where those who can afford to swing the purchase of land become the providers of education and health. As SDZs could promote construction of &amp;quot;budget&amp;quot; hospitals and a cheaper medical education model by making the scarcest of resources - that of land - available on much easier terms. If RAY unlocks land, state governments can move in to create SDZs on its own or in partnership to add vital infrastructure for education, skill training, health and medical education utilising the land.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This also will close the option of real estate interests cornering prime urban land as in the case of some SEZs. Let Dharavi be the home for a new Bombay School of Economics, a budget hospital and skill training centres instead of just a glint in the eye of real estate developers. SDZs have the immediate benefit of wiping away at one stroke many factors that inhibit investments in education, skill development and health by addressing not only the issue of land, but attracting competent academic faculty that benefits from the pre-existing availability of social and economic infrastructure of the cities.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Imaginative policies for scholarships can address the social inclusion issue through reservations for talent from rural areas. Skill training for urban youth can be ensured by making skill development infrastructure part of any new educational investment.&lt;br /&gt;
In return for land value to be negotiated by the state through competitive bidding from technically proficient providers of education and health, willing to invest in improvement of housing stock and infrastructure for current slum-dwellers. Cheaper access to some of these facilities for the residents could also become part of outreach. If state governments move proactively in this area, hundreds of good institutions for education, health and skill training can be nucleated through the proposed SDZ model. This merely connects a few dots in policy to create a surge in social development investment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The continuing wrangles over the Forest Rights Act reveal that vesting the poor with rights, has a complex territory to negotiate. The hope is that the more articulate urban poor who understand that &amp;quot;crumbs of bread, are well, crumbs of bread, and not the whole loaf&amp;quot;, may be able to wrest more, beginning with property rights under RAY.&lt;br /&gt;
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It provides a framework for the government of India support to state governments for upgrading housing and economic and social infrastructure if states legislate to assign property rights to people living in slums, now estimated as 25% of urban population.<br /><br />It prefers in situ rehabilitation as against relocation. However, it also provides for property rights and not land rights so that development of socio-economic infrastructure is made possible also by vertical construction, thereby easing a portion of the land from current use as housing stock. This, therefore, provides an opportunity for partnership with the private sector to develop the land that is freed up, provided they partner in the effort to improve housing stock and infrastructure under Rajiv Awas Yojana.<br /><br />If we examine sectors of education and health, there is a new interest in Indian capital to invest in education, especially higher education, skill development, hospital care and medical education. One of the biggest problem prospective investors face is shortage of land in cities. Therefore, the carrot that could now be dangled by the state is the offer of urban land in lieu of setting up affordable health and education facilities, thereby &quot;crowding in&quot; social infrastructure in the areas mentioned and make erstwhile slums SDZs and people living there have property rights and improved homes.<br /><br />It will require investments in improving housing stock and infrastructure upfront and allays apprehensions that it may be a repeat of experience where land was taken on promises of a certain percentage of free treatment to poor patients and breached in practice. The land should be made available only on the basis of competitive bidding from credible partners interested in education and healthcare.<br /><br />The 11th Plan, which set up central universities in remote locations to respond to regional equity, has in several locations been unable to attract faculty because of the absence of basic social infrastructure. This begs the question if students from that area would not have been better off with provision of generous scholarships to be admitted in better-functioning existing institutions. Space requirements prescribed to start an educational facility needs to be re-examined when located in the proposed SDZs.<br /><br />After all, global centres of academic excellence such as the Columbia and New York universities in the US or the London School of Economics are located in central locations of New York and London. Similarly, private healthcare and private medical education pracare costly, on account of cost of land, among other factors. <br /><br />This has created a situation where those who can afford to swing the purchase of land become the providers of education and health. As SDZs could promote construction of &quot;budget&quot; hospitals and a cheaper medical education model by making the scarcest of resources - that of land - available on much easier terms. If RAY unlocks land, state governments can move in to create SDZs on its own or in partnership to add vital infrastructure for education, skill training, health and medical education utilising the land.<br /><br />This also will close the option of real estate interests cornering prime urban land as in the case of some SEZs. Let Dharavi be the home for a new Bombay School of Economics, a budget hospital and skill training centres instead of just a glint in the eye of real estate developers. SDZs have the immediate benefit of wiping away at one stroke many factors that inhibit investments in education, skill development and health by addressing not only the issue of land, but attracting competent academic faculty that benefits from the pre-existing availability of social and economic infrastructure of the cities.<br /><br />Imaginative policies for scholarships can address the social inclusion issue through reservations for talent from rural areas. Skill training for urban youth can be ensured by making skill development infrastructure part of any new educational investment.<br />In return for land value to be negotiated by the state through competitive bidding from technically proficient providers of education and health, willing to invest in improvement of housing stock and infrastructure for current slum-dwellers. Cheaper access to some of these facilities for the residents could also become part of outreach. 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These opportunities are presented by the commencement of Rajiv Awas Yojana, a property-rights driven effort at moving towards a slum-free India and increasing interest of both the state in India and Indian capital to invest in higher education, skill development, healthcare and medical education. Collectively, these provide a canvas of reconfiguring select urban locations as social development zones.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) announced as a key initiative of the Union government to move towards a slum-free India was cleared by the Cabinet last week. It provides a framework for the government of India support to state governments for upgrading housing and economic and social infrastructure if states legislate to assign property rights to people living in slums, now estimated as 25% of urban population.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
If we examine sectors of education and health, there is a new interest in Indian capital to invest in education, especially higher education, skill development, hospital care and medical education. One of the biggest problem prospective investors face is shortage of land in cities. Therefore, the carrot that could now be dangled by the state is the offer of urban land in lieu of setting up affordable health and education facilities, thereby &amp;quot;crowding in&amp;quot; social infrastructure in the areas mentioned and make erstwhile slums SDZs and people living there have property rights and improved homes.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
The 11th Plan, which set up central universities in remote locations to respond to regional equity, has in several locations been unable to attract faculty because of the absence of basic social infrastructure. This begs the question if students from that area would not have been better off with provision of generous scholarships to be admitted in better-functioning existing institutions. Space requirements prescribed to start an educational facility needs to be re-examined when located in the proposed SDZs.&lt;br /&gt;
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This has created a situation where those who can afford to swing the purchase of land become the providers of education and health. As SDZs could promote construction of &amp;quot;budget&amp;quot; hospitals and a cheaper medical education model by making the scarcest of resources - that of land - available on much easier terms. If RAY unlocks land, state governments can move in to create SDZs on its own or in partnership to add vital infrastructure for education, skill training, health and medical education utilising the land.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This also will close the option of real estate interests cornering prime urban land as in the case of some SEZs. Let Dharavi be the home for a new Bombay School of Economics, a budget hospital and skill training centres instead of just a glint in the eye of real estate developers. SDZs have the immediate benefit of wiping away at one stroke many factors that inhibit investments in education, skill development and health by addressing not only the issue of land, but attracting competent academic faculty that benefits from the pre-existing availability of social and economic infrastructure of the cities.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Imaginative policies for scholarships can address the social inclusion issue through reservations for talent from rural areas. Skill training for urban youth can be ensured by making skill development infrastructure part of any new educational investment.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
The continuing wrangles over the Forest Rights Act reveal that vesting the poor with rights, has a complex territory to negotiate. The hope is that the more articulate urban poor who understand that &amp;quot;crumbs of bread, are well, crumbs of bread, and not the whole loaf&amp;quot;, may be able to wrest more, beginning with property rights under RAY.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
It prefers in situ rehabilitation as against relocation. However, it also provides for property rights and not land rights so that development of socio-economic infrastructure is made possible also by vertical construction, thereby easing a portion of the land from current use as housing stock. This, therefore, provides an opportunity for partnership with the private sector to develop the land that is freed up, provided they partner in the effort to improve housing stock and infrastructure under Rajiv Awas Yojana.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If we examine sectors of education and health, there is a new interest in Indian capital to invest in education, especially higher education, skill development, hospital care and medical education. One of the biggest problem prospective investors face is shortage of land in cities. Therefore, the carrot that could now be dangled by the state is the offer of urban land in lieu of setting up affordable health and education facilities, thereby &amp;quot;crowding in&amp;quot; social infrastructure in the areas mentioned and make erstwhile slums SDZs and people living there have property rights and improved homes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
The 11th Plan, which set up central universities in remote locations to respond to regional equity, has in several locations been unable to attract faculty because of the absence of basic social infrastructure. This begs the question if students from that area would not have been better off with provision of generous scholarships to be admitted in better-functioning existing institutions. Space requirements prescribed to start an educational facility needs to be re-examined when located in the proposed SDZs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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In return for land value to be negotiated by the state through competitive bidding from technically proficient providers of education and health, willing to invest in improvement of housing stock and infrastructure for current slum-dwellers. Cheaper access to some of these facilities for the residents could also become part of outreach. If state governments move proactively in this area, hundreds of good institutions for education, health and skill training can be nucleated through the proposed SDZ model. This merely connects a few dots in policy to create a surge in social development investment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The continuing wrangles over the Forest Rights Act reveal that vesting the poor with rights, has a complex territory to negotiate. The hope is that the more articulate urban poor who understand that &amp;quot;crumbs of bread, are well, crumbs of bread, and not the whole loaf&amp;quot;, may be able to wrest more, beginning with property rights under RAY.&lt;br /&gt;
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                <br /><div align="justify">Social development zones (SDZs) represent a new approach to creating education and health institutions in the country connecting emerging opportunities in policy. These also address some major constraints that Indian private investment faces today in investing in these two critical sectors of development that directly impact on unlocking human potential.<br /><br />These opportunities are presented by the commencement of Rajiv Awas Yojana, a property-rights driven effort at moving towards a slum-free India and increasing interest of both the state in India and Indian capital to invest in higher education, skill development, healthcare and medical education. Collectively, these provide a canvas of reconfiguring select urban locations as social development zones.<br /><br />Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) announced as a key initiative of the Union government to move towards a slum-free India was cleared by the Cabinet last week. It provides a framework for the government of India support to state governments for upgrading housing and economic and social infrastructure if states legislate to assign property rights to people living in slums, now estimated as 25% of urban population.<br /><br />It prefers in situ rehabilitation as against relocation. However, it also provides for property rights and not land rights so that development of socio-economic infrastructure is made possible also by vertical construction, thereby easing a portion of the land from current use as housing stock. This, therefore, provides an opportunity for partnership with the private sector to develop the land that is freed up, provided they partner in the effort to improve housing stock and infrastructure under Rajiv Awas Yojana.<br /><br />If we examine sectors of education and health, there is a new interest in Indian capital to invest in education, especially higher education, skill development, hospital care and medical education. One of the biggest problem prospective investors face is shortage of land in cities. Therefore, the carrot that could now be dangled by the state is the offer of urban land in lieu of setting up affordable health and education facilities, thereby &quot;crowding in&quot; social infrastructure in the areas mentioned and make erstwhile slums SDZs and people living there have property rights and improved homes.<br /><br />It will require investments in improving housing stock and infrastructure upfront and allays apprehensions that it may be a repeat of experience where land was taken on promises of a certain percentage of free treatment to poor patients and breached in practice. The land should be made available only on the basis of competitive bidding from credible partners interested in education and healthcare.<br /><br />The 11th Plan, which set up central universities in remote locations to respond to regional equity, has in several locations been unable to attract faculty because of the absence of basic social infrastructure. This begs the question if students from that area would not have been better off with provision of generous scholarships to be admitted in better-functioning existing institutions. Space requirements prescribed to start an educational facility needs to be re-examined when located in the proposed SDZs.<br /><br />After all, global centres of academic excellence such as the Columbia and New York universities in the US or the London School of Economics are located in central locations of New York and London. Similarly, private healthcare and private medical education pracare costly, on account of cost of land, among other factors. <br /><br />This has created a situation where those who can afford to swing the purchase of land become the providers of education and health. As SDZs could promote construction of &quot;budget&quot; hospitals and a cheaper medical education model by making the scarcest of resources - that of land - available on much easier terms. If RAY unlocks land, state governments can move in to create SDZs on its own or in partnership to add vital infrastructure for education, skill training, health and medical education utilising the land.<br /><br />This also will close the option of real estate interests cornering prime urban land as in the case of some SEZs. Let Dharavi be the home for a new Bombay School of Economics, a budget hospital and skill training centres instead of just a glint in the eye of real estate developers. SDZs have the immediate benefit of wiping away at one stroke many factors that inhibit investments in education, skill development and health by addressing not only the issue of land, but attracting competent academic faculty that benefits from the pre-existing availability of social and economic infrastructure of the cities.<br /><br />Imaginative policies for scholarships can address the social inclusion issue through reservations for talent from rural areas. Skill training for urban youth can be ensured by making skill development infrastructure part of any new educational investment.<br />In return for land value to be negotiated by the state through competitive bidding from technically proficient providers of education and health, willing to invest in improvement of housing stock and infrastructure for current slum-dwellers. Cheaper access to some of these facilities for the residents could also become part of outreach. 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Social development zones (SDZs) represent a new approach to creating education and health institutions in the country connecting emerging opportunities in policy. These also address some major constraints that Indian private investment faces today in investing in these two critical sectors of development that directly impact on unlocking human potential.<br />
<br />
These opportunities are presented by the commencement of Rajiv Awas Yojana, a property-rights driven effort at moving towards a slum-free India and increasing interest of both the state in India and Indian capital to invest in higher education, skill development, healthcare and medical education. Collectively, these provide a canvas of reconfiguring select urban locations as social development zones.<br />
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Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) announced as a key initiative of the Union government to move towards a slum-free India was cleared by the Cabinet last week. It provides a framework for the government of India support to state governments for upgrading housing and economic and social infrastructure if states legislate to assign property rights to people living in slums, now estimated as 25% of urban population.<br />
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It prefers in situ rehabilitation as against relocation. However, it also provides for property rights and not land rights so that development of socio-economic infrastructure is made possible also by vertical construction, thereby easing a portion of the land from current use as housing stock. This, therefore, provides an opportunity for partnership with the private sector to develop the land that is freed up, provided they partner in the effort to improve housing stock and infrastructure under Rajiv Awas Yojana.<br />
<br />
If we examine sectors of education and health, there is a new interest in Indian capital to invest in education, especially higher education, skill development, hospital care and medical education. One of the biggest problem prospective investors face is shortage of land in cities. Therefore, the carrot that could now be dangled by the state is the offer of urban land in lieu of setting up affordable health and education facilities, thereby &quot;crowding in&quot; social infrastructure in the areas mentioned and make erstwhile slums SDZs and people living there have property rights and improved homes.<br />
<br />
It will require investments in improving housing stock and infrastructure upfront and allays apprehensions that it may be a repeat of experience where land was taken on promises of a certain percentage of free treatment to poor patients and breached in practice. The land should be made available only on the basis of competitive bidding from credible partners interested in education and healthcare.<br />
<br />
The 11th Plan, which set up central universities in remote locations to respond to regional equity, has in several locations been unable to attract faculty because of the absence of basic social infrastructure. This begs the question if students from that area would not have been better off with provision of generous scholarships to be admitted in better-functioning existing institutions. Space requirements prescribed to start an educational facility needs to be re-examined when located in the proposed SDZs.<br />
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After all, global centres of academic excellence such as the Columbia and New York universities in the US or the London School of Economics are located in central locations of New York and London. Similarly, private healthcare and private medical education pracare costly, on account of cost of land, among other factors. <br />
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This has created a situation where those who can afford to swing the purchase of land become the providers of education and health. As SDZs could promote construction of &quot;budget&quot; hospitals and a cheaper medical education model by making the scarcest of resources - that of land - available on much easier terms. If RAY unlocks land, state governments can move in to create SDZs on its own or in partnership to add vital infrastructure for education, skill training, health and medical education utilising the land.<br />
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This also will close the option of real estate interests cornering prime urban land as in the case of some SEZs. Let Dharavi be the home for a new Bombay School of Economics, a budget hospital and skill training centres instead of just a glint in the eye of real estate developers. SDZs have the immediate benefit of wiping away at one stroke many factors that inhibit investments in education, skill development and health by addressing not only the issue of land, but attracting competent academic faculty that benefits from the pre-existing availability of social and economic infrastructure of the cities.<br />
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Imaginative policies for scholarships can address the social inclusion issue through reservations for talent from rural areas. Skill training for urban youth can be ensured by making skill development infrastructure part of any new educational investment.<br />
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<br />
The continuing wrangles over the Forest Rights Act reveal that vesting the poor with rights, has a complex territory to negotiate. The hope is that the more articulate urban poor who understand that &quot;crumbs of bread, are well, crumbs of bread, and not the whole loaf&quot;, may be able to wrest more, beginning with property rights under RAY.<br />
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<br />
These opportunities are presented by the commencement of Rajiv Awas Yojana, a property-rights driven effort at moving towards a slum-free India and increasing interest of both the state in India and Indian capital to invest in higher education, skill development, healthcare and medical education. Collectively, these provide a canvas of reconfiguring select urban locations as social development zones.<br />
<br />
Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) announced as a key initiative of the Union government to move towards a slum-free India was cleared by the Cabinet last week. It provides a framework for the government of India support to state governments for upgrading housing and economic and social infrastructure if states legislate to assign property rights to people living in slums, now estimated as 25% of urban population.<br />
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It prefers in situ rehabilitation as against relocation. However, it also provides for property rights and not land rights so that development of socio-economic infrastructure is made possible also by vertical construction, thereby easing a portion of the land from current use as housing stock. This, therefore, provides an opportunity for partnership with the private sector to develop the land that is freed up, provided they partner in the effort to improve housing stock and infrastructure under Rajiv Awas Yojana.<br />
<br />
If we examine sectors of education and health, there is a new interest in Indian capital to invest in education, especially higher education, skill development, hospital care and medical education. One of the biggest problem prospective investors face is shortage of land in cities. Therefore, the carrot that could now be dangled by the state is the offer of urban land in lieu of setting up affordable health and education facilities, thereby &quot;crowding in&quot; social infrastructure in the areas mentioned and make erstwhile slums SDZs and people living there have property rights and improved homes.<br />
<br />
It will require investments in improving housing stock and infrastructure upfront and allays apprehensions that it may be a repeat of experience where land was taken on promises of a certain percentage of free treatment to poor patients and breached in practice. The land should be made available only on the basis of competitive bidding from credible partners interested in education and healthcare.<br />
<br />
The 11th Plan, which set up central universities in remote locations to respond to regional equity, has in several locations been unable to attract faculty because of the absence of basic social infrastructure. This begs the question if students from that area would not have been better off with provision of generous scholarships to be admitted in better-functioning existing institutions. Space requirements prescribed to start an educational facility needs to be re-examined when located in the proposed SDZs.<br />
<br />
After all, global centres of academic excellence such as the Columbia and New York universities in the US or the London School of Economics are located in central locations of New York and London. Similarly, private healthcare and private medical education pracare costly, on account of cost of land, among other factors. <br />
<br />
This has created a situation where those who can afford to swing the purchase of land become the providers of education and health. As SDZs could promote construction of &quot;budget&quot; hospitals and a cheaper medical education model by making the scarcest of resources - that of land - available on much easier terms. If RAY unlocks land, state governments can move in to create SDZs on its own or in partnership to add vital infrastructure for education, skill training, health and medical education utilising the land.<br />
<br />
This also will close the option of real estate interests cornering prime urban land as in the case of some SEZs. Let Dharavi be the home for a new Bombay School of Economics, a budget hospital and skill training centres instead of just a glint in the eye of real estate developers. SDZs have the immediate benefit of wiping away at one stroke many factors that inhibit investments in education, skill development and health by addressing not only the issue of land, but attracting competent academic faculty that benefits from the pre-existing availability of social and economic infrastructure of the cities.<br />
<br />
Imaginative policies for scholarships can address the social inclusion issue through reservations for talent from rural areas. Skill training for urban youth can be ensured by making skill development infrastructure part of any new educational investment.<br />
In return for land value to be negotiated by the state through competitive bidding from technically proficient providers of education and health, willing to invest in improvement of housing stock and infrastructure for current slum-dwellers. Cheaper access to some of these facilities for the residents could also become part of outreach. If state governments move proactively in this area, hundreds of good institutions for education, health and skill training can be nucleated through the proposed SDZ model. This merely connects a few dots in policy to create a surge in social development investment.<br />
<br />
The continuing wrangles over the Forest Rights Act reveal that vesting the poor with rights, has a complex territory to negotiate. The hope is that the more articulate urban poor who understand that &quot;crumbs of bread, are well, crumbs of bread, and not the whole loaf&quot;, may be able to wrest more, beginning with property rights under RAY.<br />
<br />
<em>(Views are personal) </em><br />
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Social development zones (SDZs) represent a new approach to creating education and health institutions in the country connecting emerging opportunities in policy. These also address some major constraints that Indian private investment faces today in investing in these two critical...'
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It provides a framework for the government of India support to state governments for upgrading housing and economic and social infrastructure if states legislate to assign property rights to people living in slums, now estimated as 25% of urban population.<br /><br />It prefers in situ rehabilitation as against relocation. However, it also provides for property rights and not land rights so that development of socio-economic infrastructure is made possible also by vertical construction, thereby easing a portion of the land from current use as housing stock. This, therefore, provides an opportunity for partnership with the private sector to develop the land that is freed up, provided they partner in the effort to improve housing stock and infrastructure under Rajiv Awas Yojana.<br /><br />If we examine sectors of education and health, there is a new interest in Indian capital to invest in education, especially higher education, skill development, hospital care and medical education. One of the biggest problem prospective investors face is shortage of land in cities. Therefore, the carrot that could now be dangled by the state is the offer of urban land in lieu of setting up affordable health and education facilities, thereby &quot;crowding in&quot; social infrastructure in the areas mentioned and make erstwhile slums SDZs and people living there have property rights and improved homes.<br /><br />It will require investments in improving housing stock and infrastructure upfront and allays apprehensions that it may be a repeat of experience where land was taken on promises of a certain percentage of free treatment to poor patients and breached in practice. The land should be made available only on the basis of competitive bidding from credible partners interested in education and healthcare.<br /><br />The 11th Plan, which set up central universities in remote locations to respond to regional equity, has in several locations been unable to attract faculty because of the absence of basic social infrastructure. This begs the question if students from that area would not have been better off with provision of generous scholarships to be admitted in better-functioning existing institutions. Space requirements prescribed to start an educational facility needs to be re-examined when located in the proposed SDZs.<br /><br />After all, global centres of academic excellence such as the Columbia and New York universities in the US or the London School of Economics are located in central locations of New York and London. Similarly, private healthcare and private medical education pracare costly, on account of cost of land, among other factors. <br /><br />This has created a situation where those who can afford to swing the purchase of land become the providers of education and health. As SDZs could promote construction of &quot;budget&quot; hospitals and a cheaper medical education model by making the scarcest of resources - that of land - available on much easier terms. If RAY unlocks land, state governments can move in to create SDZs on its own or in partnership to add vital infrastructure for education, skill training, health and medical education utilising the land.<br /><br />This also will close the option of real estate interests cornering prime urban land as in the case of some SEZs. Let Dharavi be the home for a new Bombay School of Economics, a budget hospital and skill training centres instead of just a glint in the eye of real estate developers. SDZs have the immediate benefit of wiping away at one stroke many factors that inhibit investments in education, skill development and health by addressing not only the issue of land, but attracting competent academic faculty that benefits from the pre-existing availability of social and economic infrastructure of the cities.<br /><br />Imaginative policies for scholarships can address the social inclusion issue through reservations for talent from rural areas. Skill training for urban youth can be ensured by making skill development infrastructure part of any new educational investment.<br />In return for land value to be negotiated by the state through competitive bidding from technically proficient providers of education and health, willing to invest in improvement of housing stock and infrastructure for current slum-dwellers. Cheaper access to some of these facilities for the residents could also become part of outreach. If state governments move proactively in this area, hundreds of good institutions for education, health and skill training can be nucleated through the proposed SDZ model. This merely connects a few dots in policy to create a surge in social development investment.<br /><br />The continuing wrangles over the Forest Rights Act reveal that vesting the poor with rights, has a complex territory to negotiate. The hope is that the more articulate urban poor who understand that &quot;crumbs of bread, are well, crumbs of bread, and not the whole loaf&quot;, may be able to wrest more, beginning with property rights under RAY.<br /><br /><em>(Views are personal) </em><br /></div>'
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Towards social development zones by R Gopalakrishnan

Social development zones (SDZs) represent a new approach to creating education and health institutions in the country connecting emerging opportunities in policy. These also address some major constraints that Indian private investment faces today in investing in these two critical sectors of development that directly impact on unlocking human potential. These opportunities are presented by the commencement of Rajiv Awas Yojana, a property-rights driven effort at moving towards a slum-free India and increasing interest of both the state in India and Indian capital to invest in higher education, skill development, healthcare and medical education. Collectively, these provide a canvas of reconfiguring select urban locations as social development zones. Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) announced as a key initiative of the Union government to move towards a slum-free India was cleared by the Cabinet last week. It provides a framework for the government of India support to state governments for upgrading housing and economic and social infrastructure if states legislate to assign property rights to people living in slums, now estimated as 25% of urban population. It prefers in situ rehabilitation as against relocation. However, it also provides for property rights and not land rights so that development of socio-economic infrastructure is made possible also by vertical construction, thereby easing a portion of the land from current use as housing stock. This, therefore, provides an opportunity for partnership with the private sector to develop the land that is freed up, provided they partner in the effort to improve housing stock and infrastructure under Rajiv Awas Yojana. If we examine sectors of education and health, there is a new interest in Indian capital to invest in education, especially higher education, skill development, hospital care and medical education. One of the biggest problem prospective investors face is shortage of land in cities. Therefore, the carrot that could now be dangled by the state is the offer of urban land in lieu of setting up affordable health and education facilities, thereby "crowding in" social infrastructure in the areas mentioned and make erstwhile slums SDZs and people living there have property rights and improved homes. It will require investments in improving housing stock and infrastructure upfront and allays apprehensions that it may be a repeat of experience where land was taken on promises of a certain percentage of free treatment to poor patients and breached in practice. The land should be made available only on the basis of competitive bidding from credible partners interested in education and healthcare. The 11th Plan, which set up central universities in remote locations to respond to regional equity, has in several locations been unable to attract faculty because of the absence of basic social infrastructure. This begs the question if students from that area would not have been better off with provision of generous scholarships to be admitted in better-functioning existing institutions. Space requirements prescribed to start an educational facility needs to be re-examined when located in the proposed SDZs. After all, global centres of academic excellence such as the Columbia and New York universities in the US or the London School of Economics are located in central locations of New York and London. Similarly, private healthcare and private medical education pracare costly, on account of cost of land, among other factors. This has created a situation where those who can afford to swing the purchase of land become the providers of education and health. As SDZs could promote construction of "budget" hospitals and a cheaper medical education model by making the scarcest of resources - that of land - available on much easier terms. If RAY unlocks land, state governments can move in to create SDZs on its own or in partnership to add vital infrastructure for education, skill training, health and medical education utilising the land. This also will close the option of real estate interests cornering prime urban land as in the case of some SEZs. Let Dharavi be the home for a new Bombay School of Economics, a budget hospital and skill training centres instead of just a glint in the eye of real estate developers. SDZs have the immediate benefit of wiping away at one stroke many factors that inhibit investments in education, skill development and health by addressing not only the issue of land, but attracting competent academic faculty that benefits from the pre-existing availability of social and economic infrastructure of the cities. Imaginative policies for scholarships can address the social inclusion issue through reservations for talent from rural areas. Skill training for urban youth can be ensured by making skill development infrastructure part of any new educational investment. In return for land value to be negotiated by the state through competitive bidding from technically proficient providers of education and health, willing to invest in improvement of housing stock and infrastructure for current slum-dwellers. Cheaper access to some of these facilities for the residents could also become part of outreach. If state governments move proactively in this area, hundreds of good institutions for education, health and skill training can be nucleated through the proposed SDZ model. This merely connects a few dots in policy to create a surge in social development investment. The continuing wrangles over the Forest Rights Act reveal that vesting the poor with rights, has a complex territory to negotiate. The hope is that the more articulate urban poor who understand that "crumbs of bread, are well, crumbs of bread, and not the whole loaf", may be able to wrest more, beginning with property rights under RAY. (Views are personal)