DMPQ- What is the concept of Universal basic income ? Critically evaluate it’s viability for India.

Universal Basic Income is a radical and compelling paradigm shift in thinking about  both social justice and a productive economy. A universal basic income is, like many  rights, unconditional and universal: it requires that every person should have a right  to a basic income to cover their needs, just by virtue of being citizens. The time has  come to think of UBI for a number of reasons:

From an economic point of view there are three principal and related objections to a  universal basic income. The first is whether UBI reduces the incentive to work. This  argument is vastly exaggerated. For one thing, the levels at which universal basic income  are likely to be pegged are going to be minimal guarantees at best; they are unlikely to  crowd incentives to work. One school of thought would argue that it truly is a diminution  of human dignity to suppose that the only motivation for which people work is necessity;  take away the yoke of necessity and they will be lazy. The same kinds of arguments used to  be made