-Outlook Gadchiroli: A poor tribal woman has been running from pillar to post for the last 15 days to open a bank account. In absence of a bank account, Sarika Sanjay Madavi, who has a two-month-old child, is unable to avail benefit of a financial assistance scheme of the Maharashtra Government. The 25-year-old resides with her husband and mother- in-law in village Chatgaon under Dhanora taluka of this Eastern Maharashtra district, which is...
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UIDAI website in five regional languages
-PTI NEW DELHI: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) launched its multi-lingual website to reach out to various sections of the society. "The website, www.uidai.gov.in, will now appear in five regional languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil in addition to Hindi and English," an official release said. UIDAI is planning to systematically add additional language microsites to facilitate ease of access to all sections of the society. The second phase of the...
More »February clock ticks on Aadhaar
-The Telegraph Kolkata: The state government today set February 28 as the deadline for distributing Aadhaar cards among all Bengal residents, prompting many to wonder about the feasibility of covering over six crore people in little over five-and-a-half months. Providing Aadhaar numbers to all citizens above the age of five is the precursor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's dream project of rolling out a direct benefit-transfer scheme, replacing the leak-prone subsidy system. The...
More »KV Thomas promises transparency in PDS
-The Hindu Thiruvananthapuram: Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution K.V. Thomas has said that thrust will be given in developing additional storage capacity in the State for food grains in view of the implementation of the Food Security Bill. He was speaking at a ‘Meet-the-Press' programme here on Wednesday. The Minister said that two new godowns of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) with 5,000 tonnes capacity...
More »UPA’s showpiece cash plan flops in Congress bastion -Chetan Chauhan
-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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