DC | 2 hours 12 min ago
Bengaluru| Mysore| Dharwad| tumkur: The Direct Cash Transfer (DCT) system, billed as a game changer by Union finance minister P. Chidambaram, seems to have hit a road block with the majority of eligible beneficiaries in the three districts, where the new system was introduced, having no Aadhaar cards or bank accounts.
Tumkur is one of the four districts in the country selected for the launch of the Aadhaar pilot project but has not achieved its target. The situation is no different in Dharwad and Mysore. Thousands of people in Tumkur remain unaware of the Aadhaar card including the educated lot.
As part of the centre’s initiative, a few SC/ST college students got their scholarship amount credited into their SB accounts at Honnudike village in Tumkur on the launch day – January 1.
In Dharwad, only one third of the eligible beneficiaries have Aadhaar cards and less than 20 per cent have bank accounts.
Mysore, which brought more schemes under DCT, is still struggling to get Aadhaar cards for beneficiaries and make them open bank accounts.