New Delhi: A universal basic income (UBI) for Indian citizens cannot come at the cost of withdrawing existing welfare schemes and an exclusive reliance on Aadhaar-linked welfare payments for cash transfers can prove to be short-sighted, says new research.
The central design features proposed in the Economic Survey 2016-17 offers a weak foundation and implementing such a UBI scheme without deeper analysis or large scale experimental evaluations can produce underwhelming results, said the report, titled “India’s Universal Basic Income: Bedeviled by the Details”, by Carnegie India.
Authored by research analyst Saksham Khosla, the report observed that the proposed transfer is more […]
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