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Ep 50: Pramod Varma on India's Digital Empowerment

Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

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How Does the Identity Authority Work?

Last year we moved 80 billion, eight zero billion US dollars directly to bank accounts, 650 million people. There were you could do what's called a ghost beneficiaries who didn't exist ever in as humans. And there are also duplicate beneficiary, which was they were double dipping, triple dipping and all that thing into the system. Nobody has accountability of how much money is parked where delays in actually giving out because end of the day, almost daily wage people, these people need the money almost daily or every few daysbecause they have no savings to depend on.

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