Electronic cash transfer system for the welfare schemes is an ambitious project to minimize corruption, eliminate wastage and facilitate reforms. Comment.

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• PM Jan Dhan Yojana

  The pre-PMJDY debate on electronic cash transfers shows why universal bank accounts were a precondition for DBT.

• PM Ujjwala Yojana

  Cash transfer of the LPG subsidy was one of the early large DBT programmes, the base on which targeted connections for poor women were built.