-The Hindu With a single stroke, the government has made over 3.5 crore existing post office accounts ready for its new Aadhaar-linked cash transfer scheme. The accounts, which belong to MGNREGA workers over the country, were originally to be used only for receiving wages under the rural employment guarantee scheme. However, the government has now woken up to the potential of using the ready-made network of accounts to directly transfer benefits such...
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Pilot schemes must stabilise to show the benefits of cash transfer system
-The Economic Times The government has done well to scale down the initial reach of the direct cash transfer system of handing out subsidies. Direct benefit transfer (DBT), as it is called now, will cover only 20 districts and seven scholarship schemes instead of 51 districts and 34 schemes planned earlier. Limiting coverage makes eminent sense. It is better to do a thorough job than to fumble at a mammoth task,...
More »Scent of a scheme -Jayati Ghosh
-Frontline The Congress-led UPA seems to be betting heavily on the cash transfer scheme as a means to return to power in the next general elections. DECEMBER 2012 may go down in history as the month when the Congress party created its own “India Shining” moment: the moment when it started believing its own hype, and even deluded itself into thinking that its perception was so widely shared that it could provide...
More »Cash transfers: Govt to set up camps to collect details -Surabhi
-The Indian Express With less than a fortnight left to roll out its direct cash transfer scheme, the government is trying to fast-track the process of identification and registration of beneficiaries for the 34 schemes. Accordingly, it has decided to set up camps in each of the 43 districts where direct cash transfers would be launched for preparing a central database of beneficiaries, enrollment for Aadhaar numbers and opening of bank accounts. “A...
More »UID 'compulsory' from January 1, but lakhs yet to be enrolled
-The Times of India The Delhi government has put out public notices declaring that an Aadhaar card will be compulsory from January 1 for access to every government service. The notice has left people confused for lakhs of Delhiites are yet to be enrolled under the Aadhaar programme. On Saturday, Nandan Nilekani represented the UIDAI at the launch of Delhi Government's Annshree Yojana which is cited as the first Aadhaar UID-enabled scheme....
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