Centre plans to relink direct benefit transfer scheme with Aadhaar
Planning Commission, UIDAI are jointly preparing a report on the DBT scheme
New Delhi: The Centre is planning to restart the DBT scheme to directly transfer mo-ney into Aadhhar-linked bank accounts and plug leakages by weeding out ghost beneficiaries.
“The Union government may restart the Aadhaar-linked direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme as it has initiated the exercise to evaluate the efficacy of the scheme,” a source said.
The Planning Commission and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which implements the Aadhhar project, are jointly preparing a report on the DBT scheme.
The plan panel has been asked to submit the report on the Aadhaar based DBT in 300 districts before August 15.
On January 30, the UPA government had suspended the ambitious direct benefit transfer for LPG scheme, where consumers in 289 districts in 18 states got Rs 435 per month in their bank accounts for purchasing cooking gas at market rate.