Cash handouts aside, how Budget 2019 can ease farm distress, boost rural consumption

By Aman Malik

  • 10 Jun 2019
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On 31 May, just a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the oath of office for a second term, the new union cabinet in its first meeting extended the scope of the so-called PM-Kisan scheme that gives a cash handout of Rs 6,000 a year to small farmers. The scheme, ......

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