Why FM Arun Jaitley is right on Aadhaar’s use for all subsidies?

Why FM Arun Jaitley is right on Aadhaar’s use for all subsidies?

Once this is done, fertiliser, etc, can be priced at market rates and all distortions in markets will be removed

The good news, Jaitley said, was that around 99% of the country’s adult population had been linked to Aadhaar and over 63.5 crore bank accounts were linked to various bank accounts of beneficiaries. Finance minister Arun Jaitley is absolutely right when, in a blog post, he wrote about how Aadhaar-based direct benefit transfer (DBT) had increased—from Rs 7,400 crore in FY14 before the NDA came to power to over Rs 205,000 crore so far in FY19—and that this had […]

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