Direct cash transfer may remain elusive for UPA-II

The UPA government may have to put on hold its ambitious plan of rolling out cash transfer schemes for delivery of all major subsidies to the needy before the next general elections. With infrastructure and logistical arrangements being far from ready, not just independent observers, but even the government's own wings have expressed their inability to match the pace desired by the government, which wants to use direct cash transfer as a key electoral plank.

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