By Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH, FEB 1
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder
Singh Hooda today launched the Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) Scheme in
Haryana. In first phase, it has been launched for seven schemes in Ambala and
Sonipat districts of the state.
The Chief Minister Mr Hooda launched the scheme by sending an email to Deputy
Commissioners of Ambala and Sonepat districts, which was followed by disbursal
of the due amount to 3,338 beneficiaries. These beneficiaries were transferred
an amount of Rs 323.33 lakh. With this disbursal, Haryana become the leading
state to have distributed 25 percent of the total central schemes beneficiaries
of the country from January 1, 2013. Prime Minister Office had informed the
state government about it.
Mr Hooda had a video conference with the Deputy Commissioners of the two
districts and beneficiaries, who received the amount today. Mr Hooda described
the scheme as a gift to people from the UPA government on the occasion of New
Year. He said that the DBT scheme would be beneficial to the poor as they would
get the money in time. He congratulated the concerned on Haryana becoming the
leading state in DBT scheme among the central beneficiaries.
Mr. Hooda announced that the state government would launch the DBT scheme in
the whole state would be launched from April 1, 2013 after its successful
implementation in Ambala and Sonipat districts of the state. The scheme
would be launched in the whole state after reviewing the performance in the two
districts. He informed that state’s social security scheme has already been
implemented in village Durana of District, where 219 beneficiaries have been
benefitted.
Mr
Hooda informed that in first phase, Haryana government has launched the DBT
scheme for Post Matric Scholarship for SC Students, Post Matric Scholarship for
OBC Students, National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme, National Scheme for
incentive for Girl Children for Secondary Education, Post Matric Scholarship
for Minority Students, National Means cum Merit Scholarship for Minorities
Scholars and Janani Suraksha Yojana. The total numbers of beneficiaries under
the above schemes is 9639 in Ambala and 6509 in Sonepat, he added.
Launching
the scheme in New Delhi today, Mr Hooda said that all the beneficiaries in the
seven schemes in two districts have been enrolled for generation of Aadhaar
number and Adhaar numbers of 6552 (68%) beneficiaries in district Amabla and
5227 (80%) beneficiaries in district Sonepat had been generated till yesterday.
We have facilitated the opening of bank accounts of all those beneficiaries,
who did not have their bank account, he added.
Describing
the DBT scheme as a ‘giant leap towards transparent and people friendly
governance’, Mr Hooda said that it would prove to be a big help for
beneficiaries as the money would now go straight into their bank accounts. The
Aadhaar enabled DBT would help Union Government in providing end to
end traceability and availability of funds transferred. Aadhaar
linked DBT would help in providing de-duplicated database to the
Government while for individual beneficiaries it would facilitate cash
withdrawal from Business Correspondents or micro ATM across India, he added.
Mr. Hooda said that Haryana Government has been implementing various schemes of
direct cash transfer to the targeted beneficiaries. With the launching of the
present scheme, however, a huge qualitative change has been brought out by
linking the beneficiaries to UID or Aadhaar numbers, he noted.
Mr
Hooda also asked the implementing agencies to put in place ‘a very robust
machinery and manpower so that the scheme succeed in letter and spirit’. The
detailed networking and forward and backward linkages should not be lost sight
of at any cost and in fact, the actual hard work would start now, he added
while adding a word of caution for the implementing agencies, particularly the
banks.
Mr
Hooda said that to begin with, Haryana Government has decided to operate the
DBT scheme only for Government of India’s schemes and state schemes would be
incorporated later after the stabilization of the system in the
state.
Mr
Hooda said that direct cash benefit scheme is a path breaking initiative of our
social policy. It would provide greater security to the poor. It is also
a significant step in our move to achieve financial inclusion.
Fifty years ago who could think of poor people interacting with the banks for
routine transactions? It is a reality today. We can legitimately hope now that
eventually a day would come when all benefits and schemes would be universally
accessed through such a scheme, he further added.
Mr
Hooda said that DBT scheme is a move towards transparent governance as it will
help in eliminating bogus and spurious claimants. It will instill a sense
of dignity and confidence in the minds of beneficiaries. Secondly, this
initiative will enable the beneficiaries to make choices in how to spend their
money, because, regular payment will enable them to plan their day-to-day
expenditure issues. In a way, it will provide a kind of insurance to the
poor, he added.
Mr
Hooda said that Haryana Government has been implementing various schemes of
direct cash transfer to the targeted beneficiaries, for quite some time. With
the launching of the present scheme, however, a huge qualitative change has
been brought out by linking the beneficiaries to UID or Aadhaar numbers.
Aadhaar or UID is an end-to-end solution to a number of issues and this is the
fundamental basis of an individual’s identity, he added.
The
Aadhaar Payment Bridge provides transparent mechanism to check the outflow of
cash benefit to the beneficiary account. A MIS is generated every evening
whereby the concerned department could verify how much amount has been transferred
to which beneficiary and in which bank account. In case the cash transfer has
not been done, the department would immediately come to know, the payment could
not be processed. Aadhaar Payment Bridge also ensures that there is no
duplication, falsification in transfer of benefits to identified beneficiaries
under the identified government schemes.
Haryana
Chief Secretary Mr PK Chaudhery, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr
Chhattar Singh, DDG UIDAI Mrs Keshni Anand Arora, Principal OSD Mr MS Chopra,
Media Advisor Mr Shiv Bhattia, Secretary Coordination Mr TC Gupta, Director
General Information, Public Relations and Cultural Affairs, Mr Sudhir Rajpal
and number of senior officers were also present on the occasion.
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