Piyush Goyal spoke to Network18 Group Consulting Editor Nalin Mehta on India’s digital revolution, and the implications of the growth of digital public infrastructure such as UPI and DBT, and India’s emerging Techade
Two schemes namely centrally-sponsored Post-Matric Scholarship to Other Backward Classes (OBC) students and State-funded Post-Matric Scholarship to Vimukt Jati Nomadic Tribes (VJNT) students were taken up for detailed scrutiny in the Performance Audit.
DBT was rolled out on 1 January, 2013, with the aim of reforming the government delivery system by re-engineering the existing process in welfare schemes for simpler and faster flow of information/funds and to ensure accurate targeting of the beneficiaries, de-duplication and reduction of fraud