Government is mulling restarting DBT scheme to directly transfer money into Aadhar-linked bank accounts with a view to plug leakages by weeding out ghost beneficiaries.
‘Government may restart the Aadhar-linked direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme as it has initiated the exercise to evaluate the efficacy of the scheme,’ a source said.
Planning Commission and Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which implements the Aadhar project, are jointly preparing a report on the Aadhar-linked DBT scheme.
The source said the UIDAI and the commission’s senior officials are visiting 300 districts spread across the country to study the impact of the Aadhar-based scheme.
The commission has been asked to submit the report on the Aadhaar based DBT in these 300 districts before August 15, he added.
The DBTL scheme was put on hold due to complaints that many were not getting the benefit in absence of either an Aadhaar card or a bank account linked Aadhar.