Given the obvious importance of the healthcare sector, the picture in India is deeply disturbing. In July 2014, the Narendra Modi government appointed the Ranjit Roy Chaudhury Committee to develop a reforms road map for medical education in India, and the committee submitted its report in February 2015. Additionally, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare (chaired by the Bahujan Samaj Party’s Satish Chandra Mishra and subsequently by the Samajwadi Party’s Ram Gopal Yadav) submitted its report on the functioning of the MCI to Rajya Sabha in March 2016. This report pulls no punches in its assessment of the role of MCI and is scathing in its indictment of the role of the principal medical education regulator. “India has not been able to leverage its economic growth to achieve the desired healthcare outcomes," it says. The committee cites an expert opinion that “if we add 100 medical colleges every year for the next five years, only by the year 2029 will the country have adequate number of doctors." Separately, data journalism website IndiaSpend has estimated that India has a shortfall of 500,000 doctors.