Mumbai (Omprakash Tiwari). A three-year-old girl from Bhanoli village in Nagpur, on seeing the Gramin Dak Sevak (GDS), runs towards her house saying that the mother came with money, came with money … Vidarbha, infamous for farmer suicides, raised this hope in the mind of the girl because she has seen the GDS distributing money to many more villagers, including her mother. This hope has arisen in the minds of this innocent to 91-year-old grandmother Chandrabhaga Ambekar, as she is getting the money from the Central and State Governments ‘Direct Benefit Transfer’ schemes sitting at home even during the Corona crisis.
Ramshree Gajbhiye, the sarpanch of Vakeshwar village in Mouda tehsil of Nagpur, says that since the lockdown began, the only bank located five kilometers from the village was open until just two o’clock. People used to line up in the morning to withdraw money. Most had to return empty handed after being disappointed. The staff of the bank who came to the village to distribute the money, also raised their hands. In this way, Babura Singh Nakoria of GDS of Sahara became Indora Post Office, who started transferring the money of DBT schemes to the villagers through Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS). Sarpanch Gajbhiya says passionately that if the postal department had not stood like this in such a time, people would have lost their lives.
Grocery shopkeeper Badrinarayan Sampte says that his CC account is in the bank. But now they do not feel the need to go to the bank. Because Postman Babu is present to serve 24 hours. Their money is withdrawn, deposited and transferred by the Gramin Dak Sevaks.
The post master general (PMG) of Vidarbha region, Jaibhai Ramchandra, explains that the villagers have received direct benefit of the money sent by the government in the Jan Dhan schemes in all the areas like Chandrapur division of Vidarbha, Yavatmal division and Gondia sub division of Nagpur. . GDS Babusinh Nakoria of Indora Post Office says that he is distributing money to villagers from house to house in the bank like PM Kisan Samman Yojana, PM Awas Yojana, MNREGA, Shravan Bal Yojana, Niradhaar Yojana and school stipends. According to Ramchandra, during the period of his GDS lockdown in the entire Vidarbha region, a large support has emerged in the villages.
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Ganesh Nagar of Godiya Sub Division Kovid-19 had become Red Zone. At the request of the SDM Vandana, ASP of the Department of Posts, Satish Nikam, through his branch post masters and GDS, made cash transfers through AEPS to hundreds of people in the area. GDSs reach the village with a small device and mobile phone from the Department of Posts and reach out to any bank account under various schemes and take out the money of the villagers and give it to them.
According to Jaibhai Ramchandra, after the lock-down started in the country, Rs 19.51 crore have been distributed through 83,749 AEPS transactions in 11 districts of Vidarbha from 23 March to 18 May. During this time, a small post office, Indora has also distributed 41 lakh 75 thousand 370 rupees. PMG (marketing) Hina says that during the entire lockdown till now the GDS of Maharashtra has distributed Rs 72 crore 37 lakh 44 thousand 119 through 3 lakh 38 thousand 471 transactions.
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Uttar Pradesh has been the first to reach the benefit of this scheme to the common villagers, Bihar is the second place. In Uttar Pradesh, more than 350 crore rupees have been distributed through 24 lakh 52 thousand 396 transactions through post offices. About one hundred and fifty million rupees in Bihar, about 1.25 billion rupees have been reached to people in Gujarat, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Whereas more than eight billion transactions have been carried through this facility across the country and more than 14 billion rupees have been transported.
