Direct Cash Transfer
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Why parties of all colours are offering cash transfer schemes to voters
Experts say such schemes are a quick fix for the economic distress caused due to lack of enough employment.
Abhik Deb
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Ground report: Can Telangana’s massive cash transfer regime shield KCR from anti-incumbency?
Experts, however, aren’t happy with this approach. They argue traditional welfare focused on human development, such as health and education, would be better.
Shoaib Daniyal
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Income support during lockdown didn’t just battle poverty – it might have helped combat Covid-19 too
There was reduced contagion in groups where monetary help was given, since having money allowed people to stay at home.
Umang Poddar
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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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What did Vinayak Damodar Savarkar think about Dalits praying in temples and eating with Brahmins?
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‘No educated person will vote for the BJP. What is the point of studying if we do not get jobs?’
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Translated short fiction: A 73-year-old Indian man goes to Bangladesh, his ‘land of birth’, to die