QUBI can wipe off farmers’ tears

QUBI can wipe off farmers’ tears

The Rythu Bandhu scheme, in force in Telangana, has the potential to be the future of farm policy in the country

Arvind SubramanianOne question I am increasingly asked is this: Yes, the Economic Survey (“A Conversation With and Within the Mahatma”) raised the profile of Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a serious option, but has it had any resonance in policy circles? Or, more starkly: Is UBI actually being implemented anywhere in India?

My answer is a qualified yes. Telangana’s Rythu Bandhu policy is an embryonic UBI, or rather embryonic QUBI (a quasi-universal basic income, pronounced Kyoo-Bee). And it […]

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