{"id":68720,"date":"2020-11-04T17:46:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T12:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=68720"},"modified":"2021-01-15T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T06:03:58","slug":"dbt-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dbt-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"DBT Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context:<\/strong>\u00a0Central scholarship scam underlines need to tighten checks and balances in DBT architecture, fix accountability<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An investigation by a newspaper has uncovered a nexus of middlemen, government employees, and bank staff were involved in cheating students from minority communities of a centrally funded scholarship in Jharkhand.<\/li>\n<li>It was found that the officials have bypassed the verification processes and have misused the DBT funds sanctioned by the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is the need for Direct benefit transfer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dbtbharat.gov.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Direct Benefit Transfers<\/a> (DBT) was perceived as a solution for the persistent problem of social welfare and subsidy schemes by the elimination of middlemen.<\/li>\n<li>The use of Aadhaar seeding ensures that nobody else can claim the share of the benefits by impersonation or any other means.<\/li>\n<li>The recent incident has proved that having a Unique Identification Number (UIN) is no guarantee against being robbed of scholarships, pensions, and other welfare entitlements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How DBT funds are being misappropriated?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bank officials and school staff steal user IDs and passwords to divert benefits from schools that never applied for any grant.<\/li>\n<li>Middlemen compel parents to forego a big share of their children\u2019s dues.<\/li>\n<li>Institutions overstate records to apply for scholarship funds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>suggest also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/current-affairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">current affairs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a need to find effective solutions to strengthen DBT schemes so that social welfare funds and subsidies will reach the intended beneficiaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0Central scholarship scam underlines need to tighten checks and balances in DBT architecture, fix accountability Background An investigation by a newspaper has uncovered a nexus of middlemen, government employees, and bank staff were involved in cheating students from minority communities of a centrally funded scholarship in Jharkhand. It was found that the officials have bypassed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dbt-scam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DBT Scam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230],"tags":[1309,1415],"class_list":["post-68720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","tag-education_related","tag-gov_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701098797},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}