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The finance minister has been singing praises for the Prime Minister’s Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY). Under this scheme, free foodgrain was given away to needy people. This was praised in a recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper . It credited the free foodgrain programme for only a 10 basis points rise in extreme poverty in 2020 to 0.86 percent despite COVID.
There are three things wrong with the FM’s glorification of the free-food scheme.There are three things wrong with the FM’s glorification of […]
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