Is the Congress's big ticket plan to directly transfer cash to social welfare beneficiaries working? After the pilot project was conducted in Delhi, many still prefer conventional ration to cash, even though the government claims around 84 per cent recipients prefer cash. ...
10:26 AM, Nov 29, 2012
Communist Party of India leader D Raja said on Wednesday that his party was opposed to the UPA government's scheme to directly transfer cash to beneficiaries of subsidies and social schemes. He said his party would raise the issue in Parliament. ...
01:45 AM, Nov 29, 2012
Land acquisition and corruption will be among a string of issues to be highlighted by Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which on Tuesday described the UPA government's decision to launch direct cash transfer scheme as a "bribe to voters". ...
08:59 PM, Nov 28, 2012
The government has labelled direct cash transfer of subsidies a game changer. To do a ground check, CNN-IBN travelled to Alwar and found that cash transfer of the subsidy in kerosene has not been a roaring success. Beneficiaries complain they have received money only till May. ...
07:30 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Set to launch its new flagship programme of direct cash transfer from January one next year, the government on Tuesday said it will be a "game changer" with lasting benefits and dismissed suggestions that the roll-out hinted at mid-term polls. The programme, aimed at plugging leakages and ensure efficient delivery of benefits, will initially cover 29 welfare schemes mainly related to scholarships but leave out beneficiaries of subsidised food and...
02:41 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Zee editors Sudhir Chaudhry, Sameer Ahluwalia arrested in Jindal Group extortion case. UPA government on Tuesday furnished the outline of its ambitious direct cash transfer scheme. ...
11:55 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Referring to the modus operandi of the scheme, Chidambaram said that subsidies would directly be credited to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries. ...
11:44 PM, Nov 27, 2012
The government claims falsification and duplication will be eradicated as subsidies will be directly credited to bank accounts of beneficiaries. ...
10:03 PM, Nov 27, 2012
News 360: Kargil martyr's father wants India to take up the issue with Pakistan ...
09:19 PM, Nov 27, 2012
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on Tuesday furnished the outline of its ambitious direct cash transfer scheme, with Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram terming it as a big political game changer. ...
05:17 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Bogged down by allegations of massive corruption and cornered by the Opposition on economic reforms measures, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government on Tuesday outlined the details of an ambitious direct cash transfer based on Aadhar cards, which it claimed will prove to be a "game changer". ...
05:17 PM, Nov 27, 2012
A day after the government announced the direct cash transfer scheme for BPL families through Aadhar cards, the opposition is calling it a ploy to end subsidies. ...
03:15 PM, Nov 27, 2012
It was the most ambitious policy initiatives of the UPA-II government and its biggest election card as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday convened the first meeting to decide on the rollout plan for direct transfers based on Aadhar rollout. According to the plan, as many as 51 districts to rollout direct cash transfer from January 1, 2013. ...
10:20 PM, Nov 26, 2012
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01:32 PM, Nov 26, 2012
The government will start direct cash transfer of subsidy amount to beneficiaries in 51 districts from the beginning of the next year and targets to introduce the new programme across the country by the end of 2013, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Saturday. ...
05:29 AM, Nov 25, 2012
Chandigarh: Five criminals involved in a recent kidnapping of a 17-year-old son of a businessman in Rohtak district have been arrested following a joint operation of Rohtak and Sonipat police force, Haryana Police said. Police recovered Rs 28 lakh in cash, weapons, ammunition, police uniforms and a car from the possession of the arrested people, a police department spokesman said in Chandigarh. He said the members of the gang were...
01:01 AM, Nov 15, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Friday set a January 1, 2013 deadline for kick starting its ambitious scheme of directly transferring cash to beneficiaries of welfare schemes and subsidiaries, a project announced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over a month ago, in 51 districts across the country. The decision was taken at a meeting of the executive committee on direct cash transfers chaired by prime minister's Principal Secretary Pulok Chatterji...
01:13 AM, Nov 10, 2012
The RBI left interest rates unchanged on Tuesday but cut the cash reserve ratio for banks and indicated it may ease monetary policy further in the January-March quarter, although inflation remains a near-term concern. While the decision to leave the policy repo rate unchanged at 8.00 per cent. As inflation eases further, there will be an opportunity for monetary policy to act in conjunction with fiscal and other measures to ...
02:21 PM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: The RBI left interest rates unchanged on Tuesday but cut the cash reserve ratio for banks and indicated it may ease monetary policy further in the January-March quarter, although inflation remains a near-term concern. While the decision to leave the policy repo rate unchanged at 8.00 per cent was in line with forecasts in a recent Reuters poll, expectations for a rate cut had grown after India's finance...
11:15 AM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday ordered further probe into the 2008 cash-for-vote scam to "unearth the hidden truth" in the case in which Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh is also an accused. Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal directed police to trace the source of money and conduct the probe from all possible angles and file an additional charge sheet in the case within six weeks. The order of...
02:01 PM, Oct 15, 2012
