Woodblock printing in Madhya Pradesh. Arian Zwegers/Flickr. (CC BY 2.0)
Neil Howard (oD): What is India Network for Basic Income (INBI) and what do you do?
Sarath: India Network for Basic Income is a nation-wide community of researchers, scholars, journalists, and concerned citizens who are keen to understand, research, and advocate the idea of basic income in the Indian context. It was established in 2015 by a small group of researchers who participated in the Madhya Pradesh Basic Income Pilot Study that was conducted between 2011 and 2014. The results of this study were very positive and demonstrated that basic income, if designed and implemented well, can have a strong transformative and emancipatory effect on the lives of the poor. It is this conviction that propelled this small group to begin to talk to more people about this big idea, and that’s how INBI was formed.
