Business & Economy Government Policies

Direct Benefit Transfer System: Efficiency or Centralization?

India’s welfare state has had a history of layers of administrative chains, subsidized mediation, and departmentally fragmented channels of delivery. The Direct Benefit Transfer System represents a structural departure from that model. Conceived as a governance reform, rather than just a payment mechanism, it is aimed at posing out in-kind and intermediary-driven subsidy flows with […]