Senior Congress leader and former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said education and health were being over-regulated and over-centralised, and that both subjects should be moved back to the State List from the Concurrent List.
“We should quickly democratise our approach to health and education. The Centre can come out with broad policies, but States have to implement [them] as per their needs,” he said, answering a query during an event in Chennai. Mr. Chidambaram was speaking on the topic: The Congress Economic model, organised by the All India Professionals' Congress, Tamil Nadu. “On education, States can compete with each other. The health needs of each State are different,” he said.
