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Major savings from scrapping duplicate ration cards, fake MGNREGS claims
Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) spending fell 5% in FY26, reaching ₹6.6 lakh crore. While fertilizer subsidies and rural housing saw…
PM Kisan 22nd installment is likely to be released in early or mid-March 2026, based on past seven-year trends. However,…
Historically, DBT outflows have been uneven, often spiking in the final weeks of March due to end-of-year subsidy settlements, pending…
With the PM Kisan 22nd instalment likely in February 2026, farmers need to stay alert as new rules come into…
In comparison to the 20th instalment, around 70 lakh fewer farmers received the payment this time, leading to savings of…
Expectations are high that the Modi government may release 2025’s third installment of PM-KISAN before the first phase of Bihar…
The Centre has intensified its verification and database clean-up drive to weed out ineligible and duplicate beneficiaries — a move…
India’s Direct Benefit Transfers fell 4% to Rs 6.6 lakh crore in FY25 amid delayed scheme rollouts and lower subsidies.…
India’s Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) disbursements decreased by 16% in FY25 to ₹5.8 lakh crore, reflecting reduced leakages and scheme…
The aim of Subhadra Yojana is to make women self-reliant as well as encourage them to start their own business.…
The maximum number of DBT beneficiaries in 2023-24 were under the PM Vishwakarma scheme launched in September 2023.
To put this in perspective, the DBT-enabled savings during FY15-FY23 are 75% higher than Rs 2 trillion earmarked for Production…
Given the government’s ongoing drive for saturation of welfare schemes and launch of a few new schemes such as Vishwakarma…
Recently, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), too, hailed India’s direct cash transfer and similar social welfare schemes that are backed…
The aim of DBT (Direct Benefit Transfer) is to transfer the benefits and subsidies of various social welfare schemes directly…
Cumulative savings of government on expenditure, thanks to the DBT till FY21-end, was Rs 2.23 trillion