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Jharkhand govt's bank transfer pilot for food subsidies turns a nightmare -Ashlin Mathew

-National Herald

More than 25% of the villagers in Nagri, near Ranchi, where the pilot was introduced, have not received subsidies. Most have made multiple trips to the banks wasting their money and yet no solution

Aychi Nagduwar is 85 years old and she lives with her 40-year-old mentally-challenged son in Singhpur near Ranchi. The food subsidy supposed to be credited by the Jharkhand government under the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme has not reached her ever since it began in October.

Somari Mundain near Ranchi lives with her young grandson and he used to get the grains from the dealer, but now he is unable to work his way around the bank. She has travelled multiple times and each time she was told that her DBT money hasn’t been credited. In fact, her DBT money hasn’t been credited since October and she uses her widow pension to buy ration.

Octogenarian Fulit Kachhap is physically challenged and in order to help her, her daughter had filled in her own account for the DBT transfers, but the money was transferred to Fulit’s account. Now, the daughter has to book an auto, spend ?300 to take Fulit to the bank to authenticate her biometric identification, then she has to get her mother back home. Once she does that, she goes back to the bank, waits in the queue for a few hours to be able to withdraw the DBT payment. There are no separate queues for the old and handicapped in these banks.

Dulari Kachhap is a tribal girl, whose father had died months before the DBT launch in their village. The account to which the DBT payment is transferred belongs to the deceased father. No one else can withdraw from the account. They have attempted to solve the issue multiple times, but it hasn’t been solved yet. Her family hasn’t been buying PDS ration for the last five months.

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