{"id":32081,"date":"2020-08-28T13:16:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T07:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=32081"},"modified":"2020-08-28T13:16:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T07:46:22","slug":"jan-dhan-scheme-a-game-changer-says-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=32081","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jan Dhan\u2019 scheme a game-changer, says PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>On the sixth anniversary of its launch, the Prime Minister it served as the foundation for many poverty alleviation initiatives of the govt.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/jan-dhan-scheme-a-game-changer-says-pm-modi\/article32462778.ece\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An elderly woman shows a 500 rupee note after withdrawing from her Jan Dhan account, after the Centre released its second installment of the COVID-19 lockdown relief fund, in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. File photo\" src=\"https:\/\/th.thgim.com\/news\/national\/34el4u\/article32462777.ece\/alternates\/FREE_435\/THAVDJANDHAN\">An elderly woman shows a 500 rupee note after withdrawing from her Jan Dhan account, after the Centre released its second installment of the COVID-19 lockdown relief fund, in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Marking the sixth anniversary of the\u00a0\u2018Jan Dhan\u2019 scheme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that the initiative has been a \u201cgame-changer\u201d and served as the foundation for many poverty alleviation initiatives of his government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>After he led the BJP to power in 2014, this was one of his government\u2019s first major projects under which bank accounts of crores of people, mostly poor, were opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday, six years ago, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana was launched with an ambitious aim of banking the unbanked. This initiative has been a game-changer, serving as the foundation for many poverty alleviation initiatives, benefitting crores of people,\u201d the Prime Minister tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThanks to the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, the future of several families has become secure. A high proportion of beneficiaries are from rural areas and are women. I also applaud all those who have worked tirelessly to make PM-JDY a success. #6Years Of JanDhan Yojana,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The graphics shared by him showed that more than 40 crore bank accounts have been opened so far with more than 63 per cent of the beneficiaries belonging to rural areas. Over 55 per cent of them are women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has said that it has been able to directly transfer welfare benefits to the needy due to the scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the sixth anniversary of its launch, the Prime Minister it served as the foundation for many poverty alleviation initiatives of the govt. PTI An elderly woman shows a 500 rupee note after withdrawing from her Jan Dhan account, after the Centre released its second installment of the COVID-19 lockdown relief fund, in Mathura, Uttar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}