Monday, February 29, 2016
Initiatives to ensure targetted disbursement of subsidies and financial assistance to actual beneficiaries
Three specific initiatives have been proposed
While presenting the General Budget 2016-17 in Lok Sabha today, the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that this is the critical component of minimum government and maximum governance. The three initiatives are:

First, a bill for Targeted Delivery of Financial and other subsidies, benefits and services by using the Aadhar framework. A social security platform will be developed using Aadhar to accurately target beneficiaries.

Second, Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) is proposed to be introduced on pilot basis for fertilizer in a few districts across the country.

Third, of the 5.35 lakh Fair Price Shops in the country, automation facilities will be provided in 3 lakh Fair Price Shops by March, 2017.

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