In the previous Policy Note of this series, we discussed India’s direct benefit transfer (DBT) jou...

The Government on January 1, 2013, initiated DBT Phase-I in 43 districts for 24 Central Sector (CS) ...

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) is the world’s largest public e...

India’s Public Distribution System (PDS) has long come under fire for its high cost of delivery an...

As part of the Government of India’s pilots of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) for Targeted Public D...

The automation of the Public Distribution System is an ambitious attempt to combat the diversion of ...

India’s Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) is  the largest food security distribution net...

The Government of India is considering replacing kerosene with Direct Benefit Transfers (DBTs)of cas...

Encouraged by the success of Direct Benefit Transfer in LPG (DBTL), and in response to the loss of 4...

There is increasing evidence from countries such as Pakistan, Brazil, Columbia, Mexico and South Afr...

India is a social welfare state. Rs. 2,700 billion (US$43 billion) have been allocated for subsidies...

In its current form at least, the success of digital finance is dependent on front line agents - to ...

Weak Bank Mitr networks (with a reported annual attrition rate of 25-35%) in India could severely un...

RBI's College of Agricultural Banking together with the Centre for Micro Finance, IFMR Resear...

The cash versus in-kind subsidy transfer (e.g., food, fuel or fertiliser subsidy)[i] has generated m...

India Post has extensive outreach in rural areas of Jharkhand with 13 Head Post Offices (HPOs), 454 ...

We do most of our work in a historical vacuum. We tend to think of today's problems and opportun...

We strongly believe that an integrated communication approach should be the starting point of large ...

This blog highlights the tasks of a CSP and the stages involved to make G2P payment delivery to the ...