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The rollout of the scheme in its first year of implementation has been tardy with only 96,460 women receiving cash transfers Press Trust of India | New Delhi Last Updated at January 31, 2018 06:44 IST Photo: iStock Demands from activists and economists for a ...

In developing countries, the unconditional direct cash transfer scheme is looked at as a poverty alleviation programme. The cash is directly deposited in the beneficiaries#39; bank account, no questions asked.

The Centre will not offer money to beneficiaries in place of take-home rations provided at anganwadis as proposed earlier, state governments have been told. The governments think-tank NITI Aayog in its national nutrition strategy had recommended initiating ...

Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy has accused Lt Governor Kiran Bedi of posing hurdles to the implementation of welfare schemes, an accusation she rejected, saying as the territorial administrator she works for the "people and not for vested ...

The RBI fell short of pumping Rs 150 billion into the economy at the beginning of 2018-2019.Abhishek Waghmare reports. Currency in circulation increased by Rs 439 billion to Rs 18,732 billion during March 31 to April 13, according to the weekly data on reserve money published by the Reserve Bank of India. This period is the closest to the first fortnight of financial year 2018-2019. The RBI had provided currency worth Rs 544 billion to the economy in the same period in 2017-2018 and Rs 539 ...

In 2008, when the Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje had launched Bhamashah Scheme for the financial inclusion of women in the state, little did she know that the state would inch towards 100 per cent financial inclusion in her second term despite the fact that ...

   Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) has been made applicable across the country vide M/o Finance OM dated 12.12.2014. Till 15/02/2018, 366 such schemes/components have been identified where cash is directly transferred to bank account of the beneficiaries.

West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi today drew a comparison between the Centre's 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana' and the state's acclaimed 'Kanyashree Prakalpa'.Tripathi said that while the Central government's scheme helps a girl child starting from ...

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