The nobel economists' move comes at a time when academics in the U.S. have expressed growing concern over cuts to research funding and political hostility toward universities under President Donald Trump’s administration.
The states which are not run by the UPA will take the money but focus on its flawed implementation to claim their own food security idea would have done better and that the Congress was insincere about the idea anyway. The Congress-run states, on the other hand, will have to defend the scheme despite its flaws.
Eradicating poverty is perhaps the highest priority of the Indian government and although statistics claim great success the truth is we still have hundreds of millions living in dire circumstances.