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The Goa government has formulated guidelines for retail kerosene dealers for availing the direct transfer cash subsidy on PDS Kerosene (DTCK) cash transfer scheme. The notification has been issued by director of civil supplies, Vikas Gaunekar as the scheme is ...

The conditional cash transfer program of the government should be accompanied by an inclusive growth strategy for sustainable growth and poverty reduction. Jobless growth We need an inclusive growth model in which the industrial sector, particularly ...

Direct Benefit Transfer scheme for transfer of cash subsidy on cooking gas is being launched from first of next month. Initially, it will cover 7.6 million LPG consumers in 20 identified districts of 8 states and 2 Union territories. Announcing this in New ...

A week after setting June 30 deadline to bankers to set up on-site ATMs to widen the scope of direct cash transfer scheme coverage, Banking secretary Rajiv Takru met bankers in Mumbai on Wednesday and discussed the way forward for the ambitious scheme.

A widening food entitlement under the notoriously leaky public distribution system, rather than through direct cash transfers, is self-evidently a giant step backward in rationalising the provision of public goods and services to the poor and disadvantaged, notes Vivek Dehejia This past Monday, Economics Nobel laureate Amartya Sen blamed the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party for stalling the National Food Security Bill by disrupting proceedings in Parliament. Not passing the Bill, Sen ...

Tamil Nadu chief minister and AIADMK leader J Jayalalitha on Saturday voiced her opposition to the Centre's plan to launch the second phase of the Direct Cash Transfer (DCT) scheme to various beneficiaries from July 1, cautioning that the model bypasses state ...

Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh has said the Direct Benefit Transfer scheme of the Centre will not be implemented in the state.

It is disheartening that the direct cash transfer system is moving at a snails pace.

Endorsing the view that cash transfers can achieve food security, Dilli Annashri directly impacts the policy debate. Milind Murugkar writes.