Government urged to retract 'direct benefit transfer' scheme

PUDUCHERRY: Puducherry District Rural Labourers Movement, affiliated to All India Agricultural Labourers Association, today asked the Centre to retract the direct benefit transfer scheme as the poor were finding it difficult to get Aaadhar cards and in opening bank accounts.

The poor were running from pillar to post to fulfil the conditions in getting the subsidy under the LPG and old age pension payment and hence the DBT scheme should be scrapped, Organiser of the Movement R.V.Lenin said in a release here.

Lenin said the Puducherry government should ensure that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was implemented in letter and spirit.