Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, for the first time, came upfront to share his views last Sunday on the hotly-debated topic of the Universal Basic Income (UBI) broached by the Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) Arvind Subramanian in the Economic Survey on 31 January this year.
While inaugurating a workshop on “Contemporary Themes in India’s Economic Development and the Economic Survey” at IIT-Delhi, Jaitley said: “I am fully supportive of his (Arvind Subramanian’s) idea of Universal Basic Income but realise the limitations of Indian politics.”
Jaitley went on to add: “This year, the survey has initiated a very important idea as to how […]
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