Maharashtra Govt might scrap Direct Benefits Transfer for tribal college students

The Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities led by Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray in Maharashtra is all set to overturn the Devendra Fadnavis authorities’s resolution of implementing the Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) scheme for tribal college students dwelling in ashram colleges and hospitals, a report printed within the Times of India stated.
In place of DBT, the Maharashtra authorities is more likely to restore the contract system for the provisions of day by day home items and stationery for the tribal college students. Besides, as an alternative of paying a meals allowance to the scholars, canteens could also be again in hostels.
A six-member committee underneath the management of former minister Padmakar Valvi is instituted by the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities to evaluate the DBT system. The committee is predicted to file its submissions by the month-end.
An official aware about the event stated that the federal government was “finding it difficult to continue with the DBT in a few cases because of technical snags”. The official additionally added that beneficiary-related situation like sustaining minimal steadiness in college students’ financial institution accounts additionally pushed the federal government into transferring in direction of scrapping the scheme.
Ministers of Tribal Affairs in MVA authorities KC Padvi stated contractors received’t provide all of the gadgets if the system is completed away with. He admitted that there are each benefits and drawbacks hooked up to the DBT scheme and the first quarrel, on this case, is about eradicating canteens from the hostels. However, he added that the ultimate resolution will probably be taken after the committee submits its findings.
It is pertinent to notice that Padvi, together with different legislators belonging to the tribal group, had in July 2018 sat on the Vidhan Bhavan staircase in Nagpur in a protest demanding to revoke the DBT system.
The transfer confronted stiff resistance from the opposition in Maharashtra, with the opposition chief within the state legislative council Pravin Darekar questioning the intention of the MVA authorities behind scrapping the hassle-free DBT system. Darekar additional added that he would increase the difficulty within the upcoming finances session beginning on March 1.
Devendra Fadnavis-led authorities had introduced in DBT system in 2018
The DBT system for tribal college students was launched by the Fadnavis authorities in 2018, in a bid to curb the rampant corrupt practices plaguing the contract system. To take care of the corruption, the Fadnavis authorities introduced within the DBT system that allowed cash switch on to tribal college students’ accounts as meals allowance and to purchase home items like cleaning soap and toothpaste, and stationery like textbooks, notebooks, college uniforms.