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Cover Story Sankalp years
Shakti of

MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL DIRECT BENEFIT TRANSFER (DBT)
RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE
SCHEME (MGNREGA) rupees have been sent to
28 lakh the accounts of crores of
beneficiaries through DBT
crore
40,000 crore till March 2023.
of job cards
rupees have been saved
have been Ministries related to DBT DBT linked schemes
from going to the corrupt
More than linked with 350
hands by stopping fraud 60 313
90% Aadhaar. 300
in MGNREGA. 50
53
250
40
n Now the system of registering digital attendance 200
30
has also been implemented from January 1, 2023, 150
by linking it to the mobile monitoring system ie app. 20 100
10
n In 15 days, most of the MGNREGA payments are 50 28
8
being cleared, that is, no delay, no corruption. 0 0
2013-14 2022-23 2013-14 2022-23
Number of beneficiaries Broadband connection
DBT-JAM TRINITY 200 100

150 170 80
Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) is a governance reform crore 83.22
crore
for greater transparency and accountability in 60
100
government services. In this, government benefits
40
are given by linking the trinity of Jan Dhan-
50
Aadhaar-Mobile. Due to this, 100 percent amount 10.80 20 6.1
crore crore
is now reaching the beneficiary's account. The
0 0
involvement of the middleman is over. 2013-14 2022-23 March 2014 December
2022
NUMBER OF AADHAAR
n Around 10 crore bogus beneficiaries were left out of
government schemes because of JAM Trinity. This
Although the first Aadhaar number was generated in the
means government money was being sent on fake
country in 2010 but the Unique Identification Authority of
names equal to the total population of Delhi, Punjab
India was established by the Government of India on July 12,
and Haryana.
2016. UIDAI has issued more than 135 crores of Aadhaar.
n In the year 2021-22 itself, Rs 44,000 crore has been
saved due to the leakage proof system.
NUMBER OF MOBILES
was the number
114.3
of mobile holders
crore as of December
2022

PRADHAN MANTRI
JAN DHAN ACCOUNT

About 48 crore accounts have been opened under Pradhan
Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY). In December 2022, Rs
1.80 lakh crore were deposited in these accounts. Of these
account holders, 26.54 crore accounts holders are women.

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