-The Hindustan Times The UPA's showpiece direct benefits transfer (DBT) plan is struggling. Poor Aadhaar enrolment clubbed with lack of Banking facilities is coming in the way of the anti-poverty programme. Numbers are telling. Two months after the roll out in Rae Bareli, the constituency of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, only Rs. 1,400 has been transferred in Rae Bareli. The district has 6,000 people enlisted for the National Social Security Programme....
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Centre to fast-track 40,000 MW of hydro projects
-The Hindu Minister of State for Power (Independent Charge) Jyotirditya Scindia on Tuesday said the government was making efforts to fast-track nearly 95 hydro power projects with a capacity of 40,000 MW to give a big push to the power sector. The projects are awaiting clearances from different authorities, including Central Electricity Authority (CEA), Central Water Commission (CWC) and Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). "We are fast-tracking each and every...
More »Database error: Why Delhi's failed experiment shows government should not use them -M Rajshekhar
-The Economic Times In the leaky system of welfare delivery, databases are the newest valve that governments are installing to ensure that benefits reach those-and only those -they are intended for. Since December 2012, for instance, the government of Madhya Pradesh has been appending on to the Centre's Socio Economic and Caste Census a host of household-level data: Bank account numbers, NREGA card numbers, welfare entitlements, land ownership, whether their house is...
More »FCI to sell 2 million tonnes of wheat in international market -Madhvi Sally
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: The Food Corporation of India (FCI) will export two million tonnes of wheat in the coming months to earn valuable foreign exchange of nearly $ 600 million for the country. The proposal to export the wheat from the stocks of the central pool of FCI was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) last month. A sub-committee, headed by FCI Chairman and MD C Viswanath,...
More »Cash transfer reaches just 10% of test population-Sidhartha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) was supposed to be a game-changer ahead of the 2014 general elections, with the government planning to plug leakages by transferring cash directly into the accounts of beneficiaries and hoping to cash in on their goodwill. But eight months down the line, it is discovering that the grand plan has run into bureaucratic walls and the beneficiaries are not ready to...
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