Over the last nine years, public participation through initiatives like 'Ni-kshay Mitra' has played a very important role in the fight against tuberculosis (TB ), Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday (Mar 24).
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"Postal payment bank should be more accessible. All 440 schemes of Centre and State related to direct benefit transfer, DBT should ride on India post payment Bank", said Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday while addressing a forum in the national capital today.
Subsidy for fertilizer is the most important relief measure for farmers. Now, making this easier, the government is seriously thinking of giving fertilizer subsidy directly to farmers under the 2nd phase of implementation of direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme.
Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG is an everyday need of every home. This facility is now available in almost every home in villages too under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is a scheme of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas for providing LPG connections to women from Below Poverty Line (BPL) households. This LPG is provided by various companies. To increase transparency in the distribution of LPG gas cylinders government started a unique scheme.
With an aim to help the state in promoting crop diversification, saving of precious groundwater, the Punjab government has launched the Pilot Project on Direct Benefit Transfer for Electricity (DBTE) for agriculture consumers.
To provide maximum facilities to Farmers, the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) Scheme for fertilizers has been inaugurated by the Chief Minister of the Uttarakhand Trivandrum Singh Rawat at Kisan Bhawan on Wednesday. POS machine has been distributed to the fertilizer dealers.
Soon Nagaland will implement “Direct Benefit Transfer” (DBT) scheme under MGNREGA from the coming financial year. The wages of MGNREGA workers would be directly credited to the individual accounts of the job-card holders who have actually carried out the works on the basis of Rs 177 per day as daily wage through National Electronic Fund Management System (NeFMS)-Public Financial Management System (PFMS), said the Rural Development Secretary Kelei Zeliang.