Congress president Rahul Gandhi campaigning for the 2019 elections. Credit: PTI In the last few days, the Congress party has talked about a scheme of guaranteed income support, NYAY, which it says it will implement if voted to power in the upcoming elections. However, several questions around the scheme remain: What is the nature of the proposed scheme? What is its expected size? How will it be financed? How will it be delivered to its intended beneficiaries?
An income guarantee scheme is, potentially, a profoundly important policy intervention for securing the objective of reducing both poverty and economic inequality. There […]
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