Education system needs to deliver life skills for happiness: Dr. Subrata Rakshit

“You need to have the awareness to realize that there is a problem to be solved with policy, have the policy formulation done by a set of wise people, have the capacity to administer those policies, and finally need to educate the subjects of those policies, as to why they should benefit by following those policies and what they need to do to comply with the same. If all four are not done, the effectiveness of policies will not be seen,” said Dr. Subrata Rakshit, distinguished scientist and former Director General, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), at IIM Bangalore. He spoke on, ‘Technology Driven Capacity Challenges to Public Policy Formulations – a Relook at Education, Identity, Privacy and Democracy’, during the inaugural session of the XX International Conference on Public Policy & Management, hosted by the Centre for Public Policy (CPP), on 19^th August 2025, at the IIMB campus.