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Gurugram:A feel-good scheme launched by the Haryana government to provide free college education to women from poor families has inadvertently triggered a debate over income disparity in the state..
While some critics point out that Haryanas high per capita income masks widespread poverty, others claim that the governments figures for the poor seem inflated...
The scheme, announced by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar Sunday, offers free government and private college education for women if their family income is below Rs 1.80 lakh per annum..
But now, Haryana is at number one in the unemployment rate, he said.. Hooda also accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Jannayak Janta Party (BJP) government of masking the true economic picture by highlighting the states relatively high per capita income..
Madan Mohan Goel, a former professor of economics from Kurukshetra University, told ThePrint that while income disparities were indeed high, the state could be over-estimating the number of poor families by relying on self-reported data from the PPP scheme...
