-NDTV Raipur: Chhattisgarh does not favour the Centre's plan to dole out subsidies to beneficiaries by direct cash Transfer, the state's chief minister Raman Singh has told the Prime Minister. In a letter to Dr Manmohan Singh and Union Food Minister KV Thomas, the chief minister said limitations in banking and information technology would make it difficult for Chhattisgarh to implement the scheme. He said Public Distribution System (PDS) outlets were the most...
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People’s movements say no to cash Transfer, yes to PDS -Mohammad Ali
-The Hindu A day after the Union Government rolled out cash Transfer for subsidies and entitlements, Jan Sansad, a coalition of more than 60 people’s movement, rejected it for being “anti-people”. Terming the scheme “an attempt by the government to wash off its hands from the responsibility to provide basic services and social security to its citizens”, the coalition said direct cash Transfer will have disastrous impact on the lives of the...
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-The Hindustan Times The government will begin switching over to a system of direct cash Transfers for welfare in the New Year and hopes to roll it out all over the country in the ensuing 364 days. This is a radical departure from the existing welfare delivery mechanism so riddled with leaks that a mere fraction of the benefits reach the intended target groups. By co-building these Transfers with biometric enumeration...
More »Cashing in on schemes for poor -Narendar Pani
-The Hindu Any political benefit the Congress hopes to reap in 2014 will come at the cost of reducing the effectiveness of social welfare schemes In getting its ministers to endorse the shift to cash Transfers from the AICC office in New Delhi, the Congress has highlighted the political nature of the move. The party clearly expects cash Transfers to play the same role for it in 2014 that the National Rural...
More »'Cash Transfer for BPL not feasible'
-Deccan Herald Cash Transfer for public schemes is a “terrible lie”, said activists at a meeting held at Jantar Mantar on Wednesday. Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat said that if one compared India with African countries, India would beat them in terms of poverty. “The government is not willing to tax business tycoons and is making the common man suffer by cutting down subsidies,” she said. Karat added that her...
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