Govt saved â¹65,000 crore through DBT schemes: NITI Aayog CEO
NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has said the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) mechanism in several government schemes helped the government save around â¹65,000 crore. He further said that all government schemes should be linked to DBT, or else corruption cannot be ended. He added that, at present, about 300 schemes are implemented through DBT, benefiting nearly 41 crore people.