No plans to replace ICDS beneficiaries with cash transfer: WCD...

Ebix Inc, the parent company of ItzCash, has acquired Money Transfer Service Scheme (MTSS) Business of YouFirst Money Express Private Limited for an undisclosed amount. This is Ebix’s second acquisition in the month and bought the money transfer assets ...

FC Bureau City: New Delhi The government is all set to roll out direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme for payout of fertiliser subsidy to farmers on April 1, 2018, with nearly two lakh point-of-sale (PoS) machines already installed across the country. The PoS ...

The Indian governments Aadhaar card scheme, which has enrolled more than 1 billion people, has helped the exchequer save about USD 9 billion by eliminating fraud in beneficiary lists, its architect Nandan Nilekani has said here. The system, launched by the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the Aadhaar-based money transfer mobile platform for traders along with two incentive schemes, in a push to make the economy ?less-cash? and curb black money generation. Developed by National Payments Corporation of ...

Data mining with the object of ensuring that resources are properly deployed to legitimate beneficiaries is a valid ground for the state to insist on the collection of authentic data The linkage of Aadhaar to the government’s welfare programmes involving either subsidy or other benefits will remain unaffected by Wednesday’s Supreme Court judgment upholding the right to privacy as a fundamental right. "Allocation of resources for human development is coupled with a legitimate ...

The Niti Aayog has suggested taking steps over the next three years to strengthen the implementation of existing welfare schemes for minorities, contending there were no substantive developmental programmes focused on the communities until the 11th five-year ...

The mergers will not involve any cash but only share swaps The Cabinet on Wednesday approved a framework to speed up mergers of public sector banks, the first of which could take place by March. The mergers will not involve any cash but only share swaps. The government also said there would be no job losses after any of the mergers. PSU bank unions had gone on a strike on Tuesday. The decision lifted banking stocks, but bankers said the decision should not be forced on them. Finance Minister ...

Extending the Kanyashree scheme to higher education, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said NRIs will sponsor research aspirations of 10 meritorious woman students from the state.Banerjee launched the extended version of the UN-lauded ...

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