Darby Quast, Chapter 4, Question 6

One passage that stuck out to me while reading chapter 4 was about the pharmaceutical college in Mumbai.  In India there are many people who are in extreme poverty and one way of fighting this is the education system, which has already brought a large portion of people out of poverty.  Recently there was a shortage of skilled workers which was slowing economic growth.  The solution would be to get more people in school, and therefore have more workers but because of the strict restrictions the Indian government has placed on its technical colleges this is impossible.  For example, a technical college must provide 168 square feet of building space for each student.  For the Principal K. M. Kundnani College of Pharmacy, that means they cannot teach more than 300 students.  There are also rules for the size of libraries and administrative offices, ratios between professors to assistant professors, and even the number of computer terminals.  I think that this shows that while the Indian government had good intentions while creating these rules, it ended up doing more harm than good.