Cash transfer scheme hits UID wall

Sushma emerged from a dingy room at the end of a dark corridor of a building crowded with families of daily labourers in Indira Col8ony in IP Extension area, east Delhi. She reveals a bank passbook from a carefully wrapped plastic pouch. The passbook bears her name. Identified as a beneficiary of the Delhi government's ambitious "Cash for Food" programme "Annshri Yojana" Sushma now has a no-frills account to receive the Rs 600 cash subsidy for her family.

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