“The PMO will take a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the roll-out of direct benefit transfer for liquefied petroleum gas,” a finance ministry official told Business Standard on condition of anonymity.
The meeting is likely to work out a strategy to reach cash into individual bank accounts.
Over 62 million new bank accounts have been opened under the Jan Dhan scheme in the last two months.
Representatives from the department of financial services, Unique Identification Authority of India, National Population Register, National Payments Corporation of India and ministry of petroleum, along with partner banks, will be present at the meeting.
The Cabinet on Saturday announced that cash transfers for cooking gas, put on hold by the previous United Progressive Alliance government because of patchy implementation, would be re-started in November in 54 districts with high enrolment for Aadhaar, a biometric identification system.
It will be rolled out nationwide from next January.
The National Democratic Alliance government is expecting to save Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion)
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