Chhattisgarh received investment proposals worth Rs 4.50 lakh crore in six months: CM SaiChhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai reports significant investment proposals exceeding Rs 4.50 lakh crore following the new industri...
05 May, 2025, 10.47 AM IST
Construction workers to get benefits under welfare schemes through DBT: Delhi LGThe Lieutenant Governor of Delhi has approved 17 welfare schemes for registered construction workers in the national capital. The benefits ...
26 Aug, 2023, 05.20 PM IST
Govt notifies new rules to expand the use of Aadhaar beyond welfare schemesThis means it can now be “voluntarily” linked to the upcoming health identity card-for-all project as well as existing government services ...
08 Aug, 2020, 09.35 AM IST
Aadhaar will identify genuine beneficiaries of schemes: Centre to SCAppearing for the Centre, Attorney General K K Venugopal said Aadhaar would not only help identify the beneficiaries of various schemes, it...
21 Mar, 2018, 09.24 PM IST
Supreme Court judge, opponents raise pitch on AadhaarShyam Divan, the lead counsel for the petitioners, said: “Leakages were not sufficient to justify such aggregation of data on such a large ...
31 Jan, 2018, 12.19 AM 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
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
Coal auction to get Rs 3.45 lakh crore; Rs 36k crore saving via DBT: GovernmentThe government said over Rs 36,500 crore have been saved by eliminating bogus beneficiaries and leakages through DBT scheme.
29 May, 2016, 10.45 PM IST
Coal auction to get Rs 3.45 lakh crore; Rs 36,000 crore saving via DBT: GovernmentThe government said over Rs 36,500 crore have been saved by eliminating bogus beneficiaries and leakages through DBT scheme.
29 May, 2016, 07.44 PM IST
Government urges SC to vacate 2-year stay on usage of Aadhaar cards in social welfare schemesThe Centre has urged the SC to vacate a two-year stay which prevents the Centre from mandatorily using Aadhaar cards to extend social welfa...
17 Jul, 2015, 06.35 AM IST
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...
25 Feb, 2015, 02.52 PM IST
Government planning Direct-To-Home scheme to give money directly to beneficiariesAccording to the govt, the DTH scheme will plug leakages & handover pensions, work wages & other entitlements directly to beneficiaries.
04 Feb, 2014, 04.59 PM IST
None without Aadhaar would be denied benefitsThe government defended its decision to link the two to keep out the ineligible beneficiaries and plug leakages and urged the court to lift...
22 Oct, 2013, 04.02 AM IST
- Direct Benefits Transfer Scheme will be a big help: Bhupinder Singh Hooda
The Yatra will help people make the best of these schemes by informing them about the initiatives, Hooda said.
01 Jan, 2013, 06.48 PM IST
Direct Cash Transfer scheme needs meticulous planning: FicciImplementation of Direct Cash Transfer scheme needs meticulous planning and extension of banking network in the rural areas, industry body ...
02 Dec, 2012, 11.20 AM IST
Direct cash transfers will streamline the systemMoney transferred directly to the accounts of the targeted sections may well change, say, how pradhan-level politics is funded.
28 Nov, 2012, 08.34 AM IST
- PM Manmohan Singh to head panel on direct cash transfer
PM Manmohan Singh announced a high-powered committee that will oversee the government's ambitious cash transfer plan.
26 Oct, 2012, 06.26 AM IST