More Ghost Savings: Understanding the fiscal impact of India's direct transfer program — Update
Kieran Clarke — More Ghost Savings: Understanding the fiscal impact of India's direct transfer program — Update (2016)Kieran Clarke · 2016 · Report · pp. 1-2 and section on Aadhaar deduplicationDisputedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0544 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Aadhaar: India's biometric digital identity · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Official savings claims for Aadhaar-linked transfers are contested: against a claimed ₹14,672 crore saved on cooking-gas subsidies in 2014/15, an IISD analysis put the maximum gross saving from Aadhaar-based deduplication at about ₹12-14 crore.”
Context. The ministry's figure counts all savings from the DBTL scheme and blocked connections; the IISD estimate isolates Aadhaar-based deduplication and excludes implementation costs.
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