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Chandigarh, January 7 The Covid outbreak seems to have left tuberculosis patients in the lurch as more than 45,000 persons suffering from the disease have failed to get nutritional support from the government. Under the “Nikshay Poshan Yojana” (national nutritional support scheme), each notified TB patient gets a nutritional support of Rs 500 per month. The assistance is given till the patient is on anti-TB treatment. The scheme is registered under the Direct Benefit Transfer. In Punjab, there are 45,000 patients enrolled under the Tuberculosis Control Programme. However, none of them has...

BW Businessworld We Work With Positive Sentiments: Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Meeting UP CM is also an eye-opener as he came across someone deeply engrossed in implementing the right schemes, focused on attracting investments, creating new jobs and weeding out corruption. Photo Credit : Uttar Pradesh (UP) is India’s biggest state and has 20 per cent of India's population. India's economy to be a 5 trillion economy has to see UP becoming a one trillion economy. Annurag Batra, Editor-in-Chief, BW Businessworld met Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and di...

AP CM YS Jagan Infusing Transparency With DBT In Development Initiatives Dec 22, 2020, 14:54 IST AMARAVATI:  Direct Benefit transfer (DBT) has come in like a boon to the beneficiaries, with Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s proactive initiatives and transferring the money directly into the bank accounts of the beneficiaries, shunting out the role of middlemen and infusing transparency into the system in the purest form.  Not very long ago, the system was different. Old, sick and disabled people, daily wage earners had to stand in the long queues to get their pension or other be...