{"id":310811,"date":"2019-03-25T10:04:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T10:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310811"},"modified":"2019-03-25T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T10:04:59","slug":"rahul-gandhi-assures-rs-72000-annually-for-20-percent-poor-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-assures-rs-72000-annually-for-20-percent-poor-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi assures Rs 72000 annually for 20 percent poor families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310812 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/rahul-1-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/rahul-1-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/rahul-1-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/rahul-1-696x362.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/rahul-1-807x420.jpg 807w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/rahul-1.jpg 943w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday announced a monthly income guarantee scheme assuring\u00a0Rs.\u00a072,000 a year for 20 per cent of India&#8217;s poorest people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing a press conference after a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), Rahul said the money will directly transferred to bank accounts and this scheme would benefit 25 crore people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c5 crore families, that is, approximately 25 crore people will benefit from Minimum Income Guarantee scheme,\u201d Rahul said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cScheme will be implemented in phases. The fiscal repercussions have been analysed. If PM Narendra Modi can give Rs 3,50,000Cr to India&#8217;s richest, then we do the same for India&#8217;s poorest families. This is about justice for the poor,\u201d said Congress President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul said, \u201c14 crore people were lifted out of poverty under MNREGA scheme. This scheme will lift 25 crore people out of poverty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe basic income line we will consider is Rs 12,000, which means we will chip in the rest to raise the monthly income if it is lower than Rs 12,000 until people reach the basic income of Rs 12,000,\u201d Rahul said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIf a family makes Rs 6,000 a month, we will top up another Rs 6,000,\u201d Rahul added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul also described this move as historical as no one has done it before.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday announced a monthly income guarantee scheme assuring\u00a0Rs.\u00a072,000 a year for 20 per cent of India&#8217;s poorest people. Addressing a press conference after a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), Rahul said the money will directly transferred to bank accounts and this scheme would benefit 25 crore people. \u201c5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[2268,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310814,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310811\/revisions\/310814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}