Associate Professor & Former Head, Department of Commerce, Fr. Agnel College of Arts & Commerce, Goa
Online published on 2 December, 2015.
Direct cash transfers have been advocated as better means of reaching the targeted beneficiaries with less cost and even lesser leakages. The ‘Aadhar’-the Unique Identity Number project of the Government of India is a facilitating link in this exercise. Suddenly the Government seems to have expedited the process of direct transfer of cash in place of numerous subsidies.