Over the years, the government has been skimping on expenditure related to both education and health care. On both these important investments, India’s outlay has been lower than even poorer countries. The proposed investment of the rendra Modi government on health care has drawn the pointed attention of The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical jourls. What is significant is that India’s health care spending is rightly regarded as very being low despite the Modi government’s pledge made earlier this year to increase India’s health care spending from just 1.3 per cent of the GDP to 2.5 per cent. The Lancet has called this “lack of ambition”. This is what The Lancet said: “We are disappointed by the lack of ambition of Modi’s government to invest only 2.5 per cent of its GDP into health care by 2025, when the global average is about six per cent.” The jourl also said: “The rise in India’s economic fortunes and its aspiration to progress to the same level as its neighbour, Chi, is something of an embarrassment, given how improvements to health trail so far behind... Until the federal government takes health as seriously as many other tions do, India will not fulfil either its tiol or global potential.” What is rather interesting is that The Lancet should have deemed it appropriate to hold Britain responsible for the disease and disability in India even 70 years after British rule in India came to an end. “Most importantly, as one confronts disease and disability in India, Britain showed little interest in building even the most rudimentary elements of a health or scientific research system during its period of colonial rule,” The Lancet said.