India built parks for capital. It never built them for labour.

India's industrial parks are a triumph of planning for capital. A company arriving at a SIPCOT or MIDC estate finds graded land, reliable power, water, logistics links and single-window clearance, an entire environment engineered to make investment easy and fast.

For the workforce that fills those parks, no such environment exists. The same worker whose employer got single-window clearance must find his own room through a broker, arrange his own utilities, sort his own food, and figure out his own way home. Everything the company was given, the worker has to assemble alone.

This asymmetry isn't an accident of markets; it's a choice about what we plan for. We decided that capital deserved infrastructure and labour deserved a labour market. One got roads and clearances; the other got left to improvise.

The cost of that choice lands on everyone. Workers churn, savings evaporate into tolls and hidden costs, and the parks built to attract industry underperform because the people who run them can't stay. The single-window efficiency given to capital is undone by the friction imposed on labour.

Correcting it means extending the logic of the industrial park to the workforce: planned, managed living near the work, with the essentials handled the way land and power already are. Build parks for labour, not only for capital, and the whole system finally runs at the capacity it was designed for.