People spend 13 hours to access direct benefit transfers in Ranchi

As a matter of fact, the study found that people are so unsatisfied with the DBT system being piloted by the government that they want to return to the previous system of grains distribution

People in Nagri Block in Jharkhand have to wait for around 13 hours on average to be able to withdraw cash received through the direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme and buy rice from the public distribution system (PDS), a new government study released on Thursday found. 

The study, conducted by social audit unit of the Jharkhand government analysed the performance of the DBT system from October 2017 to March 2018. It found that overall 91,756 hours were spent by 6,993 beneficiaries in the withdrawal of DBT and purchase of rice from the PDS. 

Even as a vast majority of people