Ranchi: Food and civil supplies minister Saryu Roy on Tuesday said there was "nothing wrong" in direct benefit transfer (DBT) piloted in Nagri block, against which beneficiaries, Opposition and activists staged a Monday padyatra to Raj Bhavan, citing mass glitches in cash transfers to banks.
Roy said he reached this conclusion after carefully analysing PDS supplies in Nagri.
"I want to say that 83 per cent beneficiaries are smoothly getting ration since last October (when DBT started). Of the rest, most people took cash (from banks) but did not buy ration, which is why they did not get subsidy in later months. There is nothing wrong in the system," Roy claimed, adding DBT was mooted by the Centre.
He, however, said a poor man often lost a day’s wages to commute from his village to bank to PDS outlet.
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