if interested.
Interesting that Norway offer Bridge as a school course.
Makes you think that possibly Bridge and Chess would be a good for schools here 
I know they used to offer some Ballroom dancing. Which is good too.
The Indian bridge player in the comparison has a regular job as manager at a bank. Is bridge expertise somehow more compatible with an outside career, or is it just the particular people involved here?
Having a little experience in competitive bridge, I suspect that bridge players have some teamwork skills (partners must work together even if they hate each other) that chess players may not. Also bridge requires a sort of reasoning from incomplete facts that chess does not. (In practice chess too is a game of incomplete information because a human cannot calculate everything and must use judgment, but the “information horizon” is closer in bridge.) There may be some “table presence” at the card table that is a sort of interpersonal skill.
In chess the demands on visualization skill are much greater. Chess may also require more memory of positions; I think there are more types of rook endgames than types of squeezes. But I would like a really good bridge player to comment on that.