RAJASTHAN

The Rajasthan government is all set to get a social impact assessment study of various projects under Bhamashah scheme to assess its utility to the common man.

The Bhamashah scheme was initiated in 2008 for financial inclusion and women. The scheme was revamped and relaunched in 2014.

Around 18 schemes are on board the Bhamashah platform for electronic service delivery and the state government intends to bring 160 more services. More services will be added to the Bhamashah platform according to the preparedness of the implementing agencies.

Until December last year, the government enrolled more than 150 lakh families for digital service delivery platform of Bhamashah and 32.13 core transactions have taken place through electronic service delivery platforms. Around Rs 12,527 crore has been transferred directly into bank accounts of beneficiaries through the Bhamashah platform.

The selected agency will carry out the social impact assessment study. It will study the overall impact of the scheme across the state service delivery mechanism, its effect on the common masses, particularly beneficiaries of the social welfare programmes, developing measurement tools and deploying techniques for measuring such parameters, which may establish the impact of the intended objective of the scheme.

The agency will conduct focused group discussions with the beneficiary population and the common public to assess the impact of the various aspects of the schemes.

Gk bit-Bhamashah scheme

The objective of the scheme is financial inclusion, women empowerment and effective service delivery. Bank Accounts are being opened in the name of lady of the house and a Bhamashah Card is being given to families across the state. All cash benefits under public welfare schmes will be directly transferred to these bank accounts. The card will also be used to transfer non-cash benefits of various government schemes.

Under Bhamashah Ration Cards, Pension, NREGS, Scholarships (Higher Education, Technical Education and for differently abled) are being brought under one platform. The card leverages bio-metric identification and core banking under the scheme, the family is being mapped and the single unique data set is being created. The scheme implementation will be in a faced manner and cover beneficiaries at all levels across Rajasthan.

Bhahamshah card holder will be able to obtained services at different service point which include bank branches, ATMs, e-mitra kiosk. Additionally integrated service delivery shall be ensured at Rajasthan Sampark IT Centers right up to Panchayat level and Municipal areas.

PP (Previous paper) – RAS pre 2016

Consider the following statements regarding Bhamasha Yojana–
(i) With the consent of the family, any woman of the family, who has attained the age of 21 years, may be declared as the head of the family.
(ii) First verification of Bhamashah enrollment is done by the Sarpanch of the concerned Gram Panchayat.
(a) Only (i) is correct (b) Only (ii) is correct
(c) Both (i) and (ii) are correct (d) Both (i) and (ii) are incorrect

(Ans : a)

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