NEW DELHI: Between December 16, 2024, and January 6, 2025, the Chief Electoral Office, Delhi, received an “unprecedented” 5.1 lakh applications for new voter registration, of which nearly two-thirds or 3.4 lakh were filed by women, poll officials told this newspaper. It perhaps indicates a direct correlation between the sudden surge in new voter registration and the eagerness of women …
World over, social protection systems are being digitised. In the last two years, Dvara Research has worked with several partners to document instances of “exclusion” among a variety of direct benefit transfer schemes in multiple states. This is exclusion at the first stage of delivery, since an inability to obtain proper documents precludes her from applying for several schemes that …
Aadhaar-enabled Direct Transfer Benefit payments during the last financial year that was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic helped save the government nearly Rs 45,000 crore, taking total savings since 2014, when the scheme was expanded, to Rs 2.2 lakh crore, the Modi government has said. Official data reviewed by News18 confirms the big rise in DBT payments in cash and …
