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Direct benefit transfers

  • ‘We already have quasi universal income’: What the rise of cash transfers mean for the ‘India story’

    ‘We already have quasi universal income’: What the rise of cash transfers mean for the ‘India story’

    Shoaib Daniyal
    · Dec 05, 2024 · 06:31 am
  • Techno-welfare – delivered by Modi: How cash transfers are manufacturing political power in India

    Techno-welfare – delivered by Modi: How cash transfers are manufacturing political power in India

    Yamini Aiyar
    · Jan 31, 2024 · 09:00 am
  • Ground report: Can Telangana’s massive cash transfer regime shield KCR from anti-incumbency?

    Ground report: Can Telangana’s massive cash transfer regime shield KCR from anti-incumbency?

    Shoaib Daniyal
    · Nov 27, 2023 · 09:00 am
  • Months before polls, Assam launched a cash scheme for women. Now it is paying BJP dividends

    Months before polls, Assam launched a cash scheme for women. Now it is paying BJP dividends

    Arunabh Saikia
    · Mar 23, 2021 · 06:30 am
  • Watch: Food or cash? 97% of people surveyed in this Jharkhand block had the same answer

    Watch: Food or cash? 97% of people surveyed in this Jharkhand block had the same answer

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 24, 2018 · 09:15 am
  • Cash transfers for subsidised foodgrain: Government claims 99% success. Not so, say 33%

    Cash transfers for subsidised foodgrain: Government claims 99% success. Not so, say 33%

    Mridula Chari
    · Sep 23, 2017 · 09:00 am