{"id":55037,"date":"2026-06-21T11:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/indias-cash-transfer-boom-gives-relief-to-the-poor-but-strains-budgets\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T11:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:42:17","slug":"indias-cash-transfer-boom-gives-relief-to-the-poor-but-strains-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/indias-cash-transfer-boom-gives-relief-to-the-poor-but-strains-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s cash transfer boom gives relief to the poor but strains budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">The transfers range from 1,000 rupees ($10.5; \u00a37.7) to 2,500 rupees per month, depending on the state. But a median cash transfer of 1,500 rupees per month could be covering 74% of monthly expenditure in rural areas and 51% in urban areas for the bottom 20% of  households, making them a &#8220;new buffer for India&#8217;s household consumption&#8221;, Crisil Intelligence said in a recent report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0jy8zyn663o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transfers range from 1,000 rupees ($10.5; \u00a37.7) to 2,500 rupees per month, depending on the state. But a median cash transfer of 1,500 rupees per month could be covering 74% of monthly expenditure in rural areas and 51% in urban areas for the bottom 20% of households, making them a &#8220;new buffer for India&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55039,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55037\/revisions\/55039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}