tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664850319166330515.post855665733204817114..comments2024-03-18T01:00:57.108+05:30Comments on Seek truth from facts: DBTL and Aadhaar: Calling the Bluff on SavingsR. Ramakumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04712323842923650748noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2664850319166330515.post-10187507692279531612016-04-03T01:12:18.806+05:302016-04-03T01:12:18.806+05:30S&A are mopping up the mess created by Modi &a...S&A are mopping up the mess created by Modi & his Ministers. Framing this as an academic debate, and selectively answering easy questions is their way of trying to keep a lid on things. <br /><br />The Oxford educated CEA should be asked to explain his view on lack of accounting of costs & benefits of DBTL platform including Aadhaar, not just in terms of savings or exclusion, but about the silence about the broader equity implications of such targeting policy under PAHAL. Specifically, any benefits from DBTL should be weighed not just against expenditure towards DBTL & UID implementation, but in terms of progress towards bringing clean cooking fuels to benefit the public, especially in rural areas.<br /><br />The CEA is guilty of framing public policy goals of LPG in narrow instrumental terms of targeting subsidies, rather than expanding access to clean fuels. The 3rd chapter of this year's economic survey sets up the middle class as the bogeyman to avert the gaze from absence of a LPG distribution network outsides India's cities. Their promise to set up 10,000 distributors will take yrs. Before then this govt will deny benefits and tout it as an achievement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com