There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other
social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the
total commercialization of
social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready
acceptance of self - financing concept in
social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the
social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between
social development and economic growth.