Sarath Davala, an independent sociologist based in Hyderabad, has begun a new blog focused on basic income in India. Davala worked closely on the Indian Basic Income Pilot projects with Renana Jhabvala, Soumya Kapoor Mehta, and Guy Standing, authoring Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India.
On the blog’s website, the reader can find blog posts tailored to basic income in India, information on their book, and the final report for the Indian Basic Income Pilot Study.
To visit the blog, Basic Income India, click here.
Why not distribute the “income” at a rate which suits the individuals spending “habits” (weekly,monthly,daily)
While Still allowing for savings to accrue
And all on a plastic card
Why do we always refer to monthly when it comes to giving this income to people who probably operate more on a day to day basis and who probably do not know how to budget very well?
The people, the population living with a daily spending of less than $2/- have to be helped out first. Let research, discussions and conferences for Unconditional / Universal Basic Income for all citizens not ignore and let the poorest continue to suffer and die due to poverty, hunger, starvation, undernourishment ,malnutrition and non availability of Money/Cash with them. These are 3 bn people i.e, 50% of total population of the world and 50% of these poor are living @ less than even $1.25 per day. We should immediately work on the project to give directly atleast $1.50 per person to these 25% poorest of the world over to protect them from hunger, starvation, undernourishment, malnutrition and from deaths of mothers at childbirth, of newborns, of infants, of children and of seniors due to poverty, hunger, starvation and non availability of Money/ Cash with these families to access doctors, hospitals for medication and healthcare, when they suffer from sickness, epidemics.
This works out $825 Bn per year and is not a big amount for the Governments of the 25-30 developed and developing countries. There is no reason why these “WORLD LEADERS” should not come forward to save and serve the most vulnerable segments of society , the women,newborns, infants, children and senior citizens.from deaths,hunger and starvation.
This amount is just 1/10th of annual income of top 500 Richest persons of the world, who have benefitted from legal,illegal mining of minerals, natural resources, automation, technology upgradation and Artificial Intelligence. Why they should not be asked/persuaded/forced to shell out this amount to do justice to the poorest.
The people, the population living with a daily spending of less than $2/- have to be helped out first. Let research, discussions and conferences for Unconditional / Universal Basic Income for all citizens continue and not ignore and let the poorest continue to suffer and die due to poverty, hunger, starvation, undernourishment ,malnutrition and due to non availability of Money/Cash with them. These are 3 bn people i.e, 50% of total population of the world and 50% of these poor are living @ less than even $1.25 per day. We should immediately work on the project to give directly atleast $1.50 per person to these 25% poorest of the world over, to protect them from hunger, starvation, undernourishment, malnutrition and from deaths of mothers at childbirth, of newborns, of infants, of children and of seniors due to poverty, hunger, starvation and non availability of Money/ Cash with these families to access doctors, hospitals for medication and healthcare, when they suffer from sickness, epidemics.
This works out $825 Bn per year and is not a big amount for the Governments of the 25-30 developed and developing countries. There is no reason why these “WORLD LEADERS” should not come forward to save and serve the most vulnerable segments of society , the women,newborns, infants, children and senior citizens.from deaths, hunger and starvation.
This amount is just 1/10th of annual income of top 500 Richest persons of the world, who have benefitted from legal,illegal mining of minerals, natural resources, automation, technology upgradation and Artificial Intelligence. Why they should not be asked/persuaded/forced to shell out this amount to do justice to the poorest.