Delhi government woos electorate with food-cum-cash scheme
26 April 2013 6:36 AM IST
Delhi government has plans to cover nearly every vulnerable and most vulnerable household in the city under its food-cum-cash scheme by July this year.
According to Sajjan Singh Yadav, commissioner/secretary for Department of Food Supplies and Consumer Affairs, over 1.5 lakh households from the lowest strata of the society would be benefitted under Annashree Yojna launched recently.
‘We are issuing guidelines to various public sector banks in the city to open zero balance bank accounts for those from the vulnerable and most vulnerable families category who neither have bank accounts nor have the minimum required Rs 500 to open new one,’ said Sajjan Singh Yadav.
‘The target of the scheme is to reach the last vulnerable and most vulnerable family in the city so that no family is left uncovered in the public distribution system,’ he added. The department has roped in services of various voluntary organisations (NGOs) to identify these families and help them in opening their bank accounts.
He added that the officers of the department has been directed to hold meetings with bank officers to facilitate opening of their bank accounts so that money could be directly transferred into their accounts.
He further explained that the department has chalked out a seven-stage strategy to implement the Annashree scheme – identification of vulnerable and most vulnerable families, field verification, facilitating in making unique identification number (UID), opening of zero balance bank account, MLA recommendation, sanction of fund, and transfer of fund.
‘There are thousands of applications at various stage and we are making online data of them,’ added Yadav. According to him, so far 48,307 families have been benefitted from the scheme.
The department has planned to cover 1.2 lakh such households that are not covered under any scheme of public distribution system. In addition, Circle Vigilance Committee headed by area MLA has a power to recommend 500 such families for the scheme which translates into 35,000 families as Delhi has 70 MLA segments.
‘Our effort is to reach the last vulnerable family in the city by July,’ claimed Yadav. He further informed that the widows covered in pension scheme would be additional ly benefitted by the scheme.
Delhi Annashree Yojana envisages to provide Rs 600 per month as direct benefit to Aadhaar enabled bank accounts of senior most female members of the most vulnerable families with a retrospective effect from 2011-12. That means such a beneficiary would get Rs 15,000 in her account as on 1 May 2013.
According to Sajjan Singh Yadav, commissioner/secretary for Department of Food Supplies and Consumer Affairs, over 1.5 lakh households from the lowest strata of the society would be benefitted under Annashree Yojna launched recently.
‘We are issuing guidelines to various public sector banks in the city to open zero balance bank accounts for those from the vulnerable and most vulnerable families category who neither have bank accounts nor have the minimum required Rs 500 to open new one,’ said Sajjan Singh Yadav.
‘The target of the scheme is to reach the last vulnerable and most vulnerable family in the city so that no family is left uncovered in the public distribution system,’ he added. The department has roped in services of various voluntary organisations (NGOs) to identify these families and help them in opening their bank accounts.
He added that the officers of the department has been directed to hold meetings with bank officers to facilitate opening of their bank accounts so that money could be directly transferred into their accounts.
He further explained that the department has chalked out a seven-stage strategy to implement the Annashree scheme – identification of vulnerable and most vulnerable families, field verification, facilitating in making unique identification number (UID), opening of zero balance bank account, MLA recommendation, sanction of fund, and transfer of fund.
‘There are thousands of applications at various stage and we are making online data of them,’ added Yadav. According to him, so far 48,307 families have been benefitted from the scheme.
The department has planned to cover 1.2 lakh such households that are not covered under any scheme of public distribution system. In addition, Circle Vigilance Committee headed by area MLA has a power to recommend 500 such families for the scheme which translates into 35,000 families as Delhi has 70 MLA segments.
‘Our effort is to reach the last vulnerable family in the city by July,’ claimed Yadav. He further informed that the widows covered in pension scheme would be additional ly benefitted by the scheme.
Delhi Annashree Yojana envisages to provide Rs 600 per month as direct benefit to Aadhaar enabled bank accounts of senior most female members of the most vulnerable families with a retrospective effect from 2011-12. That means such a beneficiary would get Rs 15,000 in her account as on 1 May 2013.
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