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Reddy added that the poor have deposited Rs 1.75 lakh crore in Jan Dhan bank accounts as of today.
He added that there were numerous instances in some States where fraudsters using false identities stole the welfare programmes, pensions, and subsidies of the poor.
As many as four-crore fake ration cards were cancelled after the implementation of direct benefit transfer (DBT) and the same number of false LPG cylinder accounts, Reddy said.
Claiming that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had earlier said only Rs 15 is reaching people as against the Centre's disbursal of Rs 100 as the middlemen were pocketing Rs 85, the Union Minister said, "Today we can proudly say if the Centre sends Rs 100 to a poor man, even as single paise is not diverted."
Kishan Reddy said he is asking the Telangana government for the bank account information of those students so that Rs 300 crore toward scholarships can be transferred. He claimed that the Centre is prepared to deposit scholarships to SC and ST students directly into their bank accounts.
Reddy, who is also the Minister for Development of the North-Eastern Region (DoNER), stated that prior to the implementation of the digitization system, all work in the north-east was done on paper.
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