Kakinada, Feb 5th: With a view to control the corrupt practices of officials or mediators in paying the wages to the beneficiaries of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) and providing pensions under Social Security Pensions (SSP) schemes, the department launched a pilot project, Smart Cards, for making such payments. East Godavari was among few districts selected to implement the project in the state. The projects overall objective is to provide an operational framework for increasing the outreach of mainstream banking and financial services to the poorest of the poor by using technology based solutions.
Banks and government will work together to open accounts and issue Smart cards to the beneficiaries of these schemes, in the next stage, the banks will start delivering mainstream banking services like saving, deposits, remittances, loans etc to these accounts. However, while talking about the project's progress in East Godavari, the payments of nearly eight lakh NREGS beneficiaries and more than 10 lakh SSP beneficiaries are going to be streamlined and they would be made through Smart cards. A total of six banks including SBI and Andhra Bank are extending their services.
Banks and government will work together to open accounts and issue Smart cards to the beneficiaries of these schemes, in the next stage, the banks will start delivering mainstream banking services like saving, deposits, remittances, loans etc to these accounts. However, while talking about the project's progress in East Godavari, the payments of nearly eight lakh NREGS beneficiaries and more than 10 lakh SSP beneficiaries are going to be streamlined and they would be made through Smart cards. A total of six banks including SBI and Andhra Bank are extending their services.
11 killed in Hyd building collapse Posted on 06-Feb-2010
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Chikkala flays Center, Sonia Posted on 06-Feb-2010
Kakinada, Feb 5th: The former minister from Telugu Desam, Mr. Chikkala Ramachandra Rao, criticized that the Center, and the chairperson of United Progressive Alliance, Ms Sonia Gandhi were playing with the lives of people of the state by making repeated statements and constituting committees on bifur...
Efforts to complete housing project Posted on 06-Feb-2010
Kakinada, Feb 5th: The AP State Housing Corporation authorities are taking up a special drive to complete the construction of houses, which are at an advanced stage of completion in East Godavari. This is an attempt to expedite the construction of houses meant for weaker sections under Indiramma hous...
Polio Drops at door step on 7th Feb Posted on 08-Feb-2010
The nation wide polio eradication programme. Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine (BOPV), was held in East Godavari on Sunday. The Collector, Mr.Gopalakrishna Dwivedi, inaugurated the programme by administering two drops of polio vaccine to a baby at the Yetimoga urban health center this morning. On the occas...
KMC to get power from waste Posted on 08-Feb-2010
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Fee hike likely in engg colleges Posted on 08-Feb-2010
Engineering seats might become dearer in the coming academic year with private college managements from eight states demanding implementation of a uniform fee of Rs 70,000 to Rs 80,000 per annum in all engineering colleges across the country. The current fee per seat in AP engineering colleges is onl...
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