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Education is a key to social development. Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Visions of Social Change in India

Social development means the widening of people's capabilities and their effective participation in social life, not merely a rise in output — the distinction Amartya Sen draws between growth and development. Education is called its key because it is the one institution that simultaneously alters what people know, what they can do, and what they…

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  • How education produces social development
  • The Indian evidence
  • Where the key does not turn
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