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GEHLOT’S GIFT ECONOMY

A direct benefit transfer (DBT) subsidy to buy a smartphone? With election to the Rajasthan assembly just months away, the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government is trying to push through as many freebies as it can before the model code of conduct kicks in. The tender process to buy smartphones for the 13.5 million women who head their families in the state (at

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