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Business News > Mint Authors > Saksham Khosla

Saksham Khosla

ARTICLES BY SAKSHAM KHOSLA

According to the Economic Survey 2017, an annual cash transfer of Rs7,620 to Aadhaar-linked bank accounts, distributed to 75% of the population, would push all but India’s absolute poorest above the 2011-12 Tendulkar poverty line and bring the national poverty rate down to 0.5%. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Is universal basic income a feasible idea in India?

4 min read . 23 Mar 2018

A file photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with finance minister Arun Jaitley at the launch of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana. Photo: HT

The admirable success of the Jan Dhan Yojana

4 min read . 29 Aug 2017

The combination of a unique Aadhaar number linked to biometric data has barely improved targeting for the PDS in Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Universal basic income’s policy design dilemmas

5 min read . 30 Jan 2017

Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

IAS reforms: Cleaning rust from the frame

4 min read . 12 Sept 2016