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Why Tamil Nadu’s welfare politics can’t be called ‘freebies’ -Bethanavel Kuppusamy and Dharanidharan Sivagnanaselvam

-TheNewsMinute.com

One highly criticised Tamil Nadu government scheme was giving colour TV sets to households. While it was derided as a ‘freebie’, research has proved otherwise, write Dharanidharan Sivagnanaselvam and Bethanavel Kuppusamy.

In a stratified society such as India trickle down economics do not work. Even in a society such as the US, which has a much lower stratification compared to India, trickle down economics has not worked well. Historically, India has been a very unequal society due to the caste system and gender inequality, with different subaltern groups having different levels of education. According to political scientist Christoph Jaffrelot, castes in India are tightly knit cylinders, with each floating inside a bigger cylinder wherein they don't interact with each other. In an imperfect market, such as India, caste networks provide vital economic and social support. Ninety percent of all techies in the US, 97% of the richest 200 Indians and 95% of Union Secretaries in the Indian government are from the upper caste. 

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