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Burying Nehruvian legacy, Congress manifesto warms up to private sector
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₹1 lakh a year, a Mahalakshmi scheme, to poor families. Free food grains schemes distort production incentives and signals for farmers.
Cash transfers, as Mint SnapView has been arguing, are a more sound policy for improving the welfare of the poor. Populist ideas such as revival of the old pension scheme have thankfully not made it to the manifesto.
The national discourse gains when the Opposition rises to a critical national challenge, such as of chronic unemployment, especially among the youth, with constructive ideas, and in sober-minded language. Whoever forms the government after the election will find useful ideas in this manifesto.
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