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Need to cut chemical fertilisers usage via crop diversification, incentives: EAC-PM ChairmanIndia must curb chemical fertilizer use by promoting crop diversification, natural farming, and productivity-linked incentives, stated EAC-...
India’s fertiliser subsidy model is broken; direct income support is the only way forward: Ashok GulatiIndia’s fertiliser subsidy regime is facing scrutiny; rising global fertiliser and energy prices and rising fiscal pressures expose its ine...
Retail central bank digital currency in circulation falls by 24% in FY26The value of retail central bank digital currency in circulation saw a significant drop of 24.08 percent in 2025-26. Despite this, the Rese...
RBI highlights strong banking sector health, says lenders can withstand severe shocksIn the fiscal year 2025-26, India's financial landscape demonstrated remarkable stability. Both banks and non-bank entities showcased solid...
DBT helped India save Rs 3.5 lakh crore, which otherwise would have leaked: ReportIndia's Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) system has yielded substantial savings of Rs 3.48 lakh crore by curbing welfare delivery leakages, ac...
DBT through Public Financial Management System supports Digital India: Finance MinistryAs part of its FinMin Year Review 2024 initiative, the Finance Ministry in a social media post on X, stated that DBT through Public Financi...
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...
Rs 36,659 crore transferred to 16 crore beneficiaries using DBT during COVID-19 lockdownOf the Rs 36,659 crore, Rs 27,442 crore has been transferred under CSS and CS and Rs 9,717 by various state governments for its welfare sch...
Budget 2019: Minister Sadananda Gowda happy as fertilizer subsidy up by Rs 10,000 CrThe fertilizer subsidy allocation has jumped from Rs. 70,090 crore to Rs. 79,996 crore.
Direct benefit transfer: Fertiliser subsidies to be released to companies, says governmentNiti Aayog has recently set up a committee for in depth analysis of the issue and to recommend a model that could be used for direct transf...
UIDAI spends Rs 9,055 crore to enrol, despatch Aadhaar numbersThe total expenditure of the UIDAI since 2009-10 to 2017-18 (up to July 18, 2017) is Rs 9,055.73 crore.
Aadhaar scheme helped government save Rs 34,000 crore: Finance SecyThe government has proposed to make Aadhaar mandatory for securing a permanent account number and for filing income-tax returns from July.
Introduce DBT in power distribution sector: Niti AayogKant also said so that the country gets away with the usage of diesel, and an environmental pollution tax should be forced on that.
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...
Government to expand DBT to 147 schemes by next March: Finance Secretary Ashok LavasaThe government, he said, has implemented 30 per cent of the recommendations of the expenditure management commission that was set up to sug...
Aadhaar law will ensure DBT reaches genuine beneficiaries: Arun JaitleyThe Aadhaar Act gives the Aadhaar numbers a statutory backing for transfer of subsidies and benefits to people eligible for them.
ICRISAT and NIAB, UK join hands to develop cereals that use nitrogen efficiently for higher yieldsA team of researchers from India and the United Kingdom have come together to develop new cereal crop varieties that use nitrogen efficient...
Widen scope of DBT scheme: Centre tells secretaries, statesWhile Department of Food incurs internal expenditure for providing subsidised foodgrains, biometric authentication ensures targeted disburs...
Direct benefit transfer to cover all cash benefit plans from next financial yearAt present, the DBT platform is being used for transferring cash benefits to the beneficiaries of just 35 schemes, including that for cooki...
Pilot schemes must stabilise to show the benefits of cash transfer systemThe government has done well to scale down the initial reach of the direct cash transfer system of handing out subsidies.