Pushing ahead with its direct benefits transfer initiative, government would soon roll out a platform in the union territories to keep a tab on subsidiesand their delivery. Sinha, who was till recently the Minister of State for Finance, noted that Servam would become core of the DBT portal. Union Minister Jayant Sinha on Friday said the government is working on Servam, a comprehensive platform to take together the elements of Jan Dhan accounts, Aadhaar identification database and mobile phones. Delivering the valedictory address at the national workshop on Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT), he said the platform would look to have a single interface for beneficiaries and their providers to be able to deliver public benefits in a rational objective and convenient manner. Emphasising that it would be a voluntary architecture, he said the government is taking a “pull approach and not a push approach”.

Source: Indian Express July 22, 2016 15:45 UTC