The Andhra Pradesh government has issued new guidelines for the disbursement of funds under the Jagananna Vidya Deevena and Vasathi Deevena schemes with the objective of ensuring that the student remains the primary beneficiary.
Students who are beneficiaries of the two welfare programmes have been asked to open a new joint account along with their mother at the earliest. The new joint account should have the student as the primary account holder and the mother as the secondary account holder, and operation of the account should be done by both the student and the mother.
No debit card will be issued for this joint account, as withdrawal of the money should be done with the joint signatures of both the student and the mother. The Aadhaar number of the mother cannot be seeded to this account for the purpose of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) schemes, since the student is the primary account holder.
