Suvendu Adhikari announces Rs 313 crore Pradhan Mantri Cha Shramik Protsahan Yojana for West Bengal tea workersWest Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced the Rs 313.30 crore Pradhan Mantri Cha Shramik Protsahan Yojana (PMCSPY) to boost edu...
05 Jul, 2026, 10.46 AM IST
DBT helped govt take quick effective response during COVID lockdown last year: ReportA report suggests India's direct benefit transfer (DBT) programme helped in quick effective response during the COVID-19 lockdown last year...
11 Oct, 2021, 07.57 PM IST
Bharat Biotech's Covid nasal vaccine gets regulator's nod for holding phase 2 clinical trialEarly stage trials of the vaccine candidate, BBV154, has been completed in subjects aged 18 to 60 years, and the doses were found to be wel...
13 Aug, 2021, 10.27 PM IST
HGCO19 vaccine candidate: Gennova starts enrolment for Phase 1/2 human clinical trialsThe DBT said it has approved additional funding towards clinical studies of India's first of its kind' mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine, HGCO19,...
13 Apr, 2021, 01.20 PM IST
90% Central schemes already under DBT, action may now shift to statesThe number of DBT beneficiaries this financial year have also risen from around 35 cr in 2016-17 to nearly 60 cr, implying nearly half the ...
27 Dec, 2017, 08.16 AM IST
Centre to pay out Rs 1 lakh crore via direct benefit transfer scheme in 2017-18The government has been quickly adding more schemes under DBT — the number has increased to 220 as of now from 134 in 2016-17.
17 May, 2017, 01.11 AM IST
84 DBT schemes have 33.52 crore beneficiaries, says government"As on February 28, 2017, there are 33.52 crore (non-exclusive) beneficiaries in respect of 84 onboarded DBT schemes being monitored by the...
05 Apr, 2017, 05.57 PM IST
Rs 36,000 crore saved through DBT: PM Narendra ModiThe DBT programme, a major reform initiative to check leakages of welfare funds, was launched on January 1, 2013 with regard to 24 selected...
07 Nov, 2016, 08.33 PM IST
500 central schemes to go DBT way next fiscal yearSchemes which do not involve cash transfers will only have a list of beneficiaries with Aadhaar numbers to ensure that the gains are not co...
19 Oct, 2016, 12.38 PM IST
Government fixes year-end target of 100 per cent Aadhaar-linked DBT"An ambitious target of ensuring all centrally sponsored welfare and subsidy schemes are brought on DBT by March 2017, has been set," a sen...
24 Jul, 2016, 11.26 AM IST
Widen scope of DBT scheme: Centre tells secretaries, statesWhile Department of Food incurs internal expenditure for providing subsidised foodgrains, biometric authentication ensures targeted disburs...
08 May, 2016, 12.14 PM IST
DBT scheme: Centre may rank states, UTs to ensure faster implementationThe Centre plans to soon rank states and union territories on their readiness to roll out direct benefit transfer scheme for all subsides.
13 Jul, 2015, 07.24 AM IST
Direct Benefit Transfer mission team shifts to plan panelA senior government official told ET the PMO recently directed DBT mission officials to move to Yojana Bhawan, where the Planning Commissio...
24 Nov, 2014, 04.41 AM IST
UPA government's direct cash transfer scheme fails to convince bureaucratsDirect benefit transfer (DBT) mission has only three people working on the project despite repeated advertisements for the post of undersec...
14 Mar, 2014, 02.36 AM IST
Rs 480 cr transferred to beneficiary through DBT since January 1Govt today said Rs 480 crore has been transferred so far into about nine million accounts under the DBT scheme which was kicked off on Janu...
10 Sep, 2013, 06.24 PM IST
Shivraj Singh Chouhan's Madhya Pradesh steals Congress’s direct benefit transfer thunderThe DBT scheme has been touted as a game-changer for the ruling Congress party in the lead-up to the general elections in 2014.
26 Jul, 2013, 10.20 AM IST
DBT rollout: Key dept shifted from Planning Commission to Finance MinistryPrime Minister Manmohan Singh today shifted a key department overseeing its implementation from the Planning Commission to the Finance Mini...
24 Jul, 2013, 10.08 PM IST