After the inauguration and dedication of 75 Digital Banking Units to the nation by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reddy where half of 50 crores Jan Dhan The accounts belong to women. He was speaking in Jangaon, Hyderabad.
He said, “You all know that when Jan Dhan accounts were opened the question was whether it is needed in our country. Today we have distributed Rs 25 lakh crore on welfare schemes to poor people through Jan Dhan accounts. is an achievement.” ,
Reddy further said that today Rs 1.75 lakh crore is deposited in the Jan Dhan bank accounts of the poor.
He further said that there are many instances in some states where subsidies, pensions and welfare schemes of poor people are being looted by fraudsters using fake identities.
Four crore fake ration cards were canceled after the implementation of Direct Benefit Transfer.DBT) and equally false LPG cylinder accounts, Reddy said.
Claiming that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had earlier said that against the Centre’s distribution of Rs 100, only Rs 15 is reaching the people, as middlemen were in pockets of Rs 85, the Union minister said, “Today we Can proudly say whether the center sends Rs 100. A poor man, even if not a penny is diverted.”
Stating that the Center is ready to deposit scholarships to SC and ST students directly into their bank accounts, Kishan Reddy said that he is requesting Telangana The government will provide the bank details of those students so that Rs 300 crore can be transferred for that.
Reddy, Minister for Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER) also said, for the past several years, the work was done only on paper in the North-East and after the implementation of the digitization system, the works are monitored and payments are released. goes.
(Inputs from PTI)