After the interaction session with finance minister P Chidambaram, Alwar district authorities said the Aadhaar-enabled direct cash transfer schemes will be rolled out from January 1, 2013, the deadline announced by the Centre for rolling out the services in 43 districts of the country. Top officials said the welfare programmes under nine government departments covering 34 schemes will be implemented and digitization of data base for all the beneficiaries have been completed.
“The first stage for rolling out Aadhaar-enabled direct cash transfer of welfare schemes is digitization of the data base, which we have already done. Bank accounts of all beneficiaries have also been opened except for Janani Suraksha Yojana. In that scheme also we have opened bank accounts of 77% beneficiaries and the remaining 23% will be completed in one week,” Ashutosh Pednekar, district collector, Alwar.
src: TOI