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Govt to expand DBT
to 147 schemes by next March
Government is planning to expand
Direct Benefit Transfer and double the number to 147 schemes by March next
year.
Talking to a news agency, Finance
Secretary Ashok Lavasa said government has launched pilots for paying subsidy
on food, kerosene and fertiliser directly via bank accounts of beneficiaries.
Benefits and subsidies in 74
schemes of 17 government departments and ministries are paid directly to
beneficiaries under DBT as of now.
Mr Lavasa said, the Centre has
implemented 30 per cent of the recommendations of the expenditure management
commission that was set up to suggest reforms to overhaul the subsidy regime
and lower fiscal deficit.
He said government hopes to
achieve accurate targeting of beneficiaries, weed out duplication, and curb
leakages through DBT.
