Mixed views on Congress’ basic income plan

Mixed views on Congress’ basic income plan

NEW DELHI: The brains behind the “minimum income guarantee scheme”, that was recently promised by Congress president Rahul Gandhi if his party comes to power, have said that implementing the scheme is very much possible and the country is now ready to move to the politics of income and wealth distribution.

French economist Thomas Piketty, who was approached by the party for his views on the feasibility of the idea and how to implement it, before Gandhi announced it during his Chhattisgarh tour, told The Sunday Guardian that the scheme is very much implementable. “We have been exchanging (notes) with […]

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