The Shelter basic service aims to ensure that everyone has access to safe and affordable housing in their local community.
UBS Shelter
UBS Food
The Food basic service aims to ensure that food insecurity is eliminated.
Social Prosperity for the Future
Focusing on basic services, such as housing, food, communications and transport, is, we conclude, far more effective at driving down the cost of living than spending the same money on existing services, or on redistribution.
A proposal for universal basic services
What India needs at this moment is not an expensive adventure like UBI at the cost of all other government expenditure but a push towards universal access to basic services by all sections of the population provided by the government. Such a proposal for universal basic services (UBS) should be a pre-condition before UBI can be considered.
