There’s nothing universal or basic about universal basic income in India

There’s nothing universal or basic about universal basic income in India

Universal Basic Income is only an idea in the making, but within its first year of conceptualisation, it seems like the first two terms of the acronym have already been reduced to notional ideas.
-KINJAL SAMPAT & VIVEK MISHRA

A chapter in this year’s Economic Survey titled ‘Universal Basic Income: A Conversation With and Within the Mahatma’ in the Economic Survey of 2016-17, engages at length with the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI). Although UBI has not been realised in this year’s budget, its place in the Survey reflects the seriousness of the present government in pursuing […]

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