An Exploratory Study on the International Just Transition Frameworks through An Inductive

Bio : Antara Maitra holds a bachelor’s degree in MS ( Software Engineering) from VIT, Vellore and a Post Graduate Diploma in Banking from ICICI Manipal Academy. She also holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Kautilya School of Public Policy. She has worked as an Assistant Vice President at Credit Suisse Business Analytics (India) Pvt. Ltd. and as an Assistant Manger at ICICI Bank.

Project Outline: The paper examines the vulnerabilities of landless farming households in India by analyzing the existing social protection systems available to them and identifies the inadequacy of these schemes with respect to landless farmers. After conducting a systematic literature review of universal basic income (UBI) and unconditional cash transfers (UCT), this paper suggests a targeted and unconditional cash transfer for landless farmers. The suggestion is justified through the results of the systematic literature review which shows that there has been a positive correlation between cash transfers (UBI, UCT) on health, education, reduction in poverty, increase in household expenditure, overall betterment of the children, and the autonomy of the elderly.