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    Universal Basic Income — The Bengal model

    The monthly cash scheme proposal in Trinamool manifesto builds on Mamata’s welfare narrative, but could be hard to deliver for a state saddled with huge debt

    Abhijit Kumar Dutta
    March 22, 2021 / 10:46 IST
    TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee releasing the poll manifesto (Photo: ANI)
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