'Perfectly doable': Mahua Moitra responds after Chidambaram tears into TMC’s Rs 5,000-for-women promise in Goa
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After Rajya Sabha MP P Chidambaram tore into TMC's Rs 5,000-for-women electoral promise in Goa on Sunday morning, TMC's Goa in-charge Mahua Moitra said the scheme was "perfectly doable" and needed.
After Rajya Sabha MP P Chidambaram tore into the All India Trinamool Congress' Rs 5,000-for-women electoral promise in Goa on Sunday morning, TMC's Goa in-charge Mahua Moitra responded on Twitter. Defending the scheme, she said it is "perfectly doable" and that the "depressed post-Covid [economic] scenario requires putting cash in hand and liquidity into system". Yes sir @PChidambaram_IN 5000 to 3.5 lakh Goan households = 2100 crores is 6-8% of total budget which is perfectly doableGood economics in depressed post covid scenario requires putting cash in hand & liquidity into system. Here is a math that deserves the Nobel Prize for Economics.A monthly grant of Rs. 5000 to a woman in 3.5 lakh households in Goa will cost Rs. 175 crore a month.That is Rs. 2100 crore a year.