A small Indian state could become the country’s first to introduce universal basic income

A small Indian state could become the country’s first to introduce universal basic income

The ruling party in the Northeast Indian state of Sikkim has announced that it plans to make a Universal Basic Income (UBI) policy a key part of its re-election manifesto ahead of state polls this year.

If the SDF is elected again, the party, which is led by the state’s longest serving chief minister Pawan Chamling, plans to implement the policy by 2022- becoming the first state in the country to do so.

Sikkim, India’s least populous state, could serve as a good testing ground for the policy, which is being increasingly debated over even at the […]

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