Haryana CM Mr Hooda launches Direct Benefits Transfer Scheme
in two districts of Haryana
Sends e-mails to the Deputy Commissioners of the Ambala and
Sonipat districts to start operating the Scheme
Seven
schemes are being covered under this project
Mr Hooda compliments Aadhaar teams, bankers and Haryana
officers for making it possible
New Delhi , February 1, 2013
Haryana Chief
Minister Mr. 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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