Rythu Bandhu today is provided in addition to these schemes and hence can become fiscally unsustainable. (Source: Government of Telangana) One question I am increasingly asked is this: yes, the Economic Survey (“A Conversation With and Within the Mahatma”) raised the profile of universal basic income (UBI) as a serious option, but has it had any resonance in policy circles? Or, more starkly, is UBI actually being implemented anywhere in India? My answer is a qualified yes. Telangana’s Rythu Bandhu policy is an embryonic UBI, or rather an embryonic QUBI (a quasi-universal basic income, pronounced kyoo-bee). And, it could […]
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