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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | An insider’s critique -Mahim Pratap Singh

An insider’s critique -Mahim Pratap Singh

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published Published on Dec 16, 2012   modified Modified on Dec 16, 2012
-The Hindu

A report prepared by the District Supply Officer (DSO), Alwar, highlights several areas where the pilot scheme falls short.

Kotkasim: There are 25,843 ration card holders in Kotkasim district. However, bank accounts for the cash transfer have been opened only for 13,458 card holders – a little over 50%. Villagers asked to use their post office accounts, which were rejected as these accounts do not have online services. Other reasons for the less-than-enthusiastic response of people towards the pilot, as pointed out in the report, were: distance of banks from the villages, opening of accounts only in the name of head of the household among others. In the latter case, if the head of the household was infirm or was no more, accounts could not be opened.

Ever since the pilot took off, barring January this year, there has been a continuous decline of sale of kerosene.

A major cause of this was erratic transfer patterns. Several consumers, despite not buying kerosene, received double subsidy while there were others who in spite of buying kerosene for more than six months were deprived of the subsidy amount.

Further, since there was no increase in the commission of FPS owners, they lost interest in selling kerosene and even ended up preventing sale of kerosene.

The Hindu, 16 December, 2012, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/an-insiders-critique/article4205457.ece


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