Nyuntam Aay Yojana Scheme

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who has been pushing for Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY) -- a proposed minimum income guarantee scheme, on Tuesday, promised people in poll-bound Kerala that the scheme will be "tested" in the southern state if the party-led UDF is voted to power.

A Public Interest Litigation or PIL was filed in the Allahabad High Court on Friday against Congress's "Nyuntam Aay Yojana" or 'Nyay' scheme, which the party has mentioned in its manifesto.

Amid concerns that the Congress' election promise of a minimum income guarantee scheme for poor will hurt the middle class as taxes might be raised to finance the subsidy, ex-finance minister P Chidambaram said that the tax burden of the middle class will not go up.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan was among top economists that the party consulted to draft its minimum income guarantee scheme Nyuntam Aay Yojana or NYAY.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said what made her "most happy" about the party's minimum income guarantee proposal was the impact it would have on the lives of women in five crore households that will get Rs 72,000 in their accounts every year. Announced by her brother Congress chief Rahul Gandhi at a news conference on...

The Congress on Monday announced a minimum income guarantee programme that will give up to Rs 72,000 a year or Rs 6,000 a month to 20 per cent of India's poorest families if voted back to power. Congress President Rahul Gandhi, facing a tough opponent in Prime Minister Narendra Modi in general elections set for April and May, called the proposal a ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who has been pushing for Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY) -- a proposed minimum income guarantee scheme, on Tuesday, promised people in poll-bound Kerala that the scheme will be "tested" in the southern state if the party-led UDF is voted to power.

A Public Interest Litigation or PIL was filed in the Allahabad High Court on Friday against Congress's "Nyuntam Aay Yojana" or 'Nyay' scheme, which the party has mentioned in its manifesto.

Amid concerns that the Congress' election promise of a minimum income guarantee scheme for poor will hurt the middle class as taxes might be raised to finance the subsidy, ex-finance minister P Chidambaram said that the tax burden of the middle class will not go up.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan was among top economists that the party consulted to draft its minimum income guarantee scheme Nyuntam Aay Yojana or NYAY.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said what made her "most happy" about the party's minimum income guarantee proposal was the impact it would have on the lives of women in five crore households that will get Rs 72,000 in their accounts every year. Announced by her brother Congress chief Rahul Gandhi at a news conference on...

The Congress on Monday announced a minimum income guarantee programme that will give up to Rs 72,000 a year or Rs 6,000 a month to 20 per cent of India's poorest families if voted back to power. Congress President Rahul Gandhi, facing a tough opponent in Prime Minister Narendra Modi in general elections set for April and May, called the proposal a ...