Of Direct Cash Transfer and State Capacity

In response to the announcement of the introduction of cash transfer, Narender Pani has argued, in The Hindu, that the political imperatives of Congress Party have trumped legitimate worries over transaction costs of Aadhar enabled cash transfer.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta had earlier expressed his anxiety over the framing of the shift to cash transfer and the perils of looking for technocratic solutions as easy substitute for the hard grind of bureaucratic reforms and enhancing state capacity.