Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi had pitched for a “surgical strike on poverty”. Gandhi had said if the Congress was voted to power at the Centre, his government will transfer Rs 72,000 a year into the accounts of the country’s five crore poor.
The Congress named the scheme NYAY, or Nyuntam Aay Yojana (Minimum Income Scheme), in an attempt to deliver “justice” to the country’s poorest poor.
The scheme was also seen as a rejoinder to PM Modi’s KISAN Yojana, wherein he promised to transfer Rs 6,000 annually (in three equal installments) to the […]
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