Centre scares down cash transfer scheme

Gaps in infrastructure like bank accounts and beneficiary lists forced the government to pare its ambitious direct cash transfer of subsidies from the targeted 51 districts to just 20 with the number of schemes also whittled from 34 to 26. Of the 26 selected schemes, cash transfers will now rollout in seven - mostly related to student scholarships and stipends and Indira Matrutva Yojna and Dhanalakshmi schemes - from January 1, 2013.

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