Cash to voters is easy with Direct Benifit Transfer

: The much publicized direct-cash-transfer scheme, which Congress Vice President, Rahul Gandhi, had said would win the party not just the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, but also the next one in 2019, has been given a quiet burial by the oil companies.

03/28/2014 | 08:22am US/Eastern Recommend: 0 Bank of India has launched instant money transfer (IMT) scheme. The scheme allows cardless cash withdrawal at its IMT enabled Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). The withdrawal limit ...

The Cabinet’s decision to suspend cash transfer of cooking gas subsidy directly into bank accounts of consumers will deal a major blow to the government’s “game-changer” Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) scheme, as the subsidy on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) accounted for 82 per cent of the total amount transferred under the scheme. A year after DBT was implemented, the government has disbursed only Rs 3,124 crore through this channel. Of this, Rs 2,574 crore was towards ...

Several liquified petroleum gas (LPG) consumers of the State, especially from Mysore and Tumkur districts, will heave a sigh of relief as the Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG (DBTL) subsidies have been put on hold across the country. From Monday, both ...

The scheme provided the hope that the Aadhaar number would be leveraged for cash transfer of subsidy only to the intended beneficiaries and would plug leakages. By AP Hota Reportedly, the government of India is planning to suspend the Scheme of Direct Cash ...

NO fewer than 1,500 members of households in Gombe State have benefited from the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) scheme under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Alhaji Adamu Audi, Special Adviser to Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo on MDGs said ...

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The game changer could have been cash transfers of the cooking gas subsidy Shine Jacob | New Delhi April 5, 2014 Last Updated at 23:34 IST When the model code of conduct came in the way of an increase in the price of natural gas, another episode was ...

on Wednesday said no legal basis is needed for transferring benefits under government schemes to beneficiaries' bank accounts using the Aadhaar platform. Addressing a lecture, Ahluwalia also expressed hope that the rollout of electronic cash ...