The Chamarajanagar district administration has made arrangements at all taluk offices to open Savings Bank accounts in the India Post Payment Bank for the benefit of BPL card holders without an SB account.
This is to facilitate the transfer of cash through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) for any government schemes, including cash payment in lieu of rice under Anna Bhagya scheme of the State government.
The Deputy Commissioner C.T. Shilpa Nag said that more than ₹11.71 crore has been credited to the accounts of nearly 2,32,478 ration card holders under Anna Bhagya scheme of the State government. This is in lieu of additional 5 kg of rice and the amount has been fixed at ₹34 per kg. But, she pointed out that there were about 24,572 ration card holders in the district to whose account the money was yet to be transferred as their accounts were not in operation.
