The pace of rollout of direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme has been hit since working instructions on this reached Government offices very late.
Various departments are yet to designate district-level nodal officers for the programme, a State-level review meeting of bankers held here observed.
Beneficiary list under National Social Assistance Programme implemented by local self-government department has not been made available in most districts.
DIGITISED DATA
Lead district managers of banks need digitised data of beneficiaries with name of bank, bank account number and Aadhaar number. Concerned departments were expected to share the data purposes of seeding their bank accounts with Aadhaar numbers.
Many departments had not fallen in line with this. Banks needed updated list immediately so as to complete the process within prescribed time frame.
Further updated lists with incremental additions need to be submitted on a weekly basis only. The meeting observed that feedback from banks with regard to opening of account, seeding of Aaadhar numbers, and issuance of debit cards had not been received.
NOT FURNISHED
Wherever bank accounts were to be opened, camps need to be organised by the department concerned. Lead banks must ensure participation of banks in these camps.
The meeting observed that National Rural Health Msision had not prepared the beneficiary list under Janani Suraksha Yojna, a programme for safe motherhood intervention, in certain districts. Wherever submitted, bank account details had not been incorporated.
For schemes such as National Means-Cum-Merit Scholarship MMS, all post-matric scholarship schemes were updated by respective educational institutions.
These institutions were monitored by directorates of collegiate education; technical education; higher secondary education and medical education.
STUDENT DATABASE
But these departments did not have district offices to monitor updation of database by principals. This had hampered flow of beneficiary list to implementing departments.
Beneficiaries had not received Aadhaar, and hence the mismatch between number of accounts and Aadhaar seeding.
District administrations in coordination with Akshaya/NPR had organised camps for enrolment as well as Aadhaar number generation.
Even after re-opening of schools at post-summer vacation, the list had not been updated. The meeting called for immediate intervention of departments required to complete the process.