Tag: Direct benefit transfer

While the system was rightly designed to eliminate ghost beneficiaries, the impact of exclusion errors needs to be professionally and independently evaluated in detail.

In India, the direct benefit transfer (DBT) system has gained enormous acceptance as a method of delivering welfare to the most deserving. It has been the main instrument of governments’ social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The social protection landscape in India is transforming at rapid speed owing to the digitization of the various systems that are involved in the process flow of social protection delivery.

As part of our ongoing research on DBT exclusion, in this case study we discuss how data entry error leads to failure of cash transfer

In this blog post, we propose a framework that can be used to document the various axes of exclusion in DBT against the broad policy context

In this blog post, we explore a case of exclusion from the PDS, wherein a daily wage labourer, Mr. Kabeer, was unable to obtain a ration card

In this case study, we explore the case of a farmer who spent a year attempting to enrol under PMK

This blogpost discusses the case of an unorganised sector worker who, along with many other workers, did not receive the cash entitlement into her bank account

In this ongoing series, we will cover stories of citizens who have been excluded from social protection benefits delivered through the DBT and PDS.

In this blog post we study the privatisation of grants system in the South Africa