April 04, 2019 08:10 pm | Updated April 05, 2019 11:06 am IST
With the Congress promising through the Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY) scheme ₹6,000 every month to the poorest 20% of households if voted to power, Mahendra Dev and Pronab Sen talk of the importance and problems of direct cash transfers. Providing social protection is important even as governments try to create conditions for income-generating activities, they say in a discussion moderated by Sharad Raghavan.
Read excerpts from the discussion here .
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