-The Times of India HYDERABAD: Thousands of minority students in the city without an Aadhaar card may have to forgo their Centre-sponsored scholarship as the amount disbursal is coming to an end in a month's time and less than 20% of students have enrolled so far. The Centre has taken up direct benefit transfer through Aadhaar linkage on a pilot basis in Hyderabad, Chittoor, Anantapur, East Godavari and Rangareddy districts. The Centre approved...
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Aadhaar enrolment may take four more months-B Chandrashekhar
-The Hindu Hyderabad: Completion of Aadhaar enrolment, opening of bank accounts for all beneficiaries of welfare schemes and seeding of unique identity numbers with the bank accounts in the State is likely to take over six months, notwithstanding the government plans to wind up the work over the next two months. Official sources told The Hindu that it would take nothing less than four months to complete the exercise in all respects...
More »Petition demands delinking LPG subsidy and Aadhaar
-PTI Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh High Court today issued notices to the state government and the oil companies, seeking replies within a week to a petition challenging the decision to link domestic LPG connections with Aadhaar card. The order was passed by the division bench of Chief Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice Vilas V Afzalpurkar. Petitioner G Bala Goud had earlier wanted the court to direct the authorities not to impose the a...
More »Aadhaar-linked DBT hits roadblock in East Godavari -Mohammad Ali
-The Hindu Only 75% of MGNREGS workers have been enrolled; many without Aadhaar number denied access to benefits GOLLAPROLU (EAST GODAVARI, AP): The popular tagline for the Aadhaar-linked Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) is Aam aadmi ka paisa, aam aadmi ke haath (People’s money in their own hands). The DBT pilot project was launched in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh earlier this month, with Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh hailing the scheme...
More »Drought caused kharif damage in 85.6 lakh acres by B Chandrashekhar
About 51.54 lakh ryots lost investments Farmers in the State have suffered crop damage in a whopping 85.6 lakh acres during the 2011 kharif season, 44 per cent of the total 1,94,65,000 acres area cultivated. About 51.54 lakh farmers, including 48.33 lakh small and marginal ones, have lost the investment almost completely. In a report submitted to the State government recently, the Department of Agriculture has put the requirement of input subsidy, compensation...
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