Tag: Social schemes

Social Housing

Migrants face a unique inability to access government-led social schemes in their cities of work as their identity and domicile documents are often tagged to their native addresses. They may avail such benefits there but rely entirely on renting affordable homes in the cities, obtained through informal markets, often in sub-standard living conditions.

April 3, 2021

Rs.1 lakh cr paid to social scheme beneficiaries in 3 years

The Union Finance Ministry has paid over Rs.1 lakh crore to the beneficiaries of the various social schemes under the Direct Benefit Transfer during the last three years, an official statement said on 15 May. "Rs.1,02,786.77 crore has been paid through the public financial management system to the beneficiaries of the various social sector schemes...

May 16, 2017

Linking Aadhaar to legal entitlements will affect women, children: Activists

The recent announcement by the Human Resource Development Ministry to link Aadhaar card with various government programmes has caused much ire among activists working on legal entitlements. Such activists working with different organisations came together here on Tuesday on the eve of Women’s day and slammed the government for making Aadhaar card compulsory for availing...

March 7, 2017