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    648 : An Assessment of the PM-Kisan and the NYAY

    Vani Swarupa Murali and S Narayan

    15 April 2019

    The Indian National Congress launched its minimum income support scheme, the Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY), on 25 March 2019. This came almost two months after the launch of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (PM-Kisan) by the Bharatiya Janata Party during the interim budget on 1 February 2019. Both the schemes involve direct cash transfers with different criteria to farmers and the similar nature of both of these schemes has brought them into direct comparison with each other.