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    • Direct cash transfers effective in poverty alleviation, says J-PAL's Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal

      Hardware is hard but software is harder — India has built the hardware. Now the country must focus on the software – the people, their skills, their health and education, the economist tells Moneycontrol

    • SC has come down against freebies, but how much burden are they adding?

      A Moneycontrol analysis found that the new Delhi BJP government would need another Rs 13,000 crore to fund its welfare programmes, including the cash guarantee scheme for women

    • Delhi’s cash transfer scheme risks pushing Delhi into revenue deficit

      Delhi risks doubling its subsidy bill if the Aam Aadmi Party goes through with its promise of doubling the cash dole to Rs 2,100 per month for women beneficiaries . MC Analysis shows that Delhi will add another Rs 10,000 crore to the FY26 budget

    • Political Economy | The politics of distributive economics

      There is a sharp conflict between increasing the size of the economic pie and ensuring a fair division.

    • Ramesh to speak to UIDAI authorities to speed up enrolment

      Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said as the pace of the just laid out direct cash transfer scheme depended on speedy enrolment of Aadhaar he would talk to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to speed up things.

    • Govt shouldn't use cash transfer as Cong programme: BJP

      BJP today cautioned the government against using the cash transfer issue as a Congress scheme and alleged it is making a mockery of the Election Commission by going ahead with the policy despite warning from the poll panel.

    • Direct benefit transfer system to eliminate leakages: FM

      Rejecting contentions that government is implementing the Aadhar enabled Direct Benefit Transfer (cash transfer) system in a hurry, Finance Minister P Chidambaram told Rajya Sabha today that the measure being implemented step by step will eliminate leakages, delays, duplicacies and falsification.

    • Test cash-transfer scheme before launch warn experts

      NC Saxena, member, National Advisory Council and R Jagannathan, editor, Firstpost.com explain to CNBC-TV18 that the cash transfer of subsidy scheme needs to tested before it is replicated across the country to prevent and resolve the challenges that have rendered similar schemes inefficient.

    • What is UPA's 'game changer' cash transfer scheme?

      Bogged down by allegations of massive corruption and cornered by the Opposition on economic reforms measures, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government on Tuesday outlined the details of an ambitious direct cash transfer based on Aadhar cards, which it claimed will prove to be a "game changer".

    • Are direct cash subsidies better?

      Giving cash directly to the people was always a better idea than the convoluted subsidy system. But its time has come just now.

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