INBI seeks to partner India Post for cash transfer experiment

Even as the Union Government continues to stonewall demands for emergency cash transfers as a measure to mitigate the financial crisis – that daily wage earners and migrant workers who lost their jobs are facing – the India Network for Basic Income (INBI), in association with India Post is set to launch a pilot project on cash transfers.

INBI is a member of the London-based Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). Both – INBI and BIEN – have been advocating basic income transfers to mitigate hardships faced by the poor in India and globally.

“The pilot project is intended to be a proof of concept to demonstrate the efficacy of a leak-proof delivery of basic income to individual recipients,” INBI coordinator and BIEN vice-chair Sarath Davala said.