New Delhi [India], Apr 3 (ANI): Defending his comments criticizing Congress' Nyunatam Aay Yojana (NYAY) scheme, NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Wednesday said that he made the comment "as an economist and not as a member of Niti Aayog".
New Delhi [India], Mar 28 (ANI): Former vice chairman of Niti Aayog Arvind Panagariya has asserted that Congress President Rahul Gandhi's proposed minimum income guarantee initiative NYAY scheme (Nyuntam Aay Yojana) will not be able to provide RS 12000 per month to all needy families.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], March 27 (ANI): Former Finance Minister and Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Wednesday asserted that complete rollout of party's promised minimum income guarantee initiative, NYAY (Nyuntam Aay Yojana), will cost about 1.8 per cent of India's GDP.
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India] Mar 27 (ANI): Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Wednesday said the BJP terming the Congress' Nyunatam Aay Yojana (Nyay) scheme a bluff is true but added that the two parties are "birds of the same feather."
Varanasi/Ahmedabad (Uttar Pradesh/Gujarat) [India], Mar 26 (ANI): Targeting Congress president Rahul Gandhi's Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY), Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday questioned if India's grand old party had done anything for the poor when in power at the Centre for 10 years.
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 26 (ANI): Targeting Congress president Rahul Gandhi's Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY), Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday questioned if India's grand old party had done anything for the poor when in power at the Centre for 10 years.
Sriganganagar (Rajasthan) [India], Mar 26 (ANI): Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that a "surgical strike" against poverty will be carried out through minimum income guarantee "nyuntam aay yojana (NYAY)" promised by him if his party is voted to power at the Centre.
New Delhi [India], March 26 (ANI): Congress on Tuesday clarified that its minimum income guarantee initiative, NYAY (Nyuntam Aay Yojana), is not a "top-up scheme" but assures Rs 72,000 to 20 per cent of India's poorest families.
New Delhi, Mar 25 (ANI) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday said if his party comes to power, it will implement a "ground-breaking" Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY), under which 20 per cent of the poorest families of the country will be entitled to up to Rs 72,000 per year.
Maputo [Mozambique], Mar 20 (ANI): President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday declared three days of national mourning after days of torrential rain and flooding killed more than 200 people and left a trail of destruction across southeast Africa.
Maputo [Mozambique], Mar 19 (ANI): Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi on Monday said that Cyclone Idai, which made landfall in Mozambique and other neighbouring countries, might have claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people, as torrential rains showed no signs of abating.
New York [USA], Mar 17 (ANI): Two students at New York University confronted former US President Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea at a vigil organised in honour of the victims of New Zealand's gruesome terror attacks which claimed the lives of 50 people.