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The Dollar Business Bureau Delhi clocked the highest per capita income growth among all states and union territories in 2015-16, as the income grew by 13% or Rs.28,000 to reach about Rs.2,80,000. The capital’s last year average per capita income is closely trailed by Chandigarh and Sikkim, with their per capita income of Rs.2,42,386 and Rs.2,27,465, respectively during the year. Delhi’s current figure stands at three times the national average last year, according to the latest official data released on Thursday. According to a statistical handbook released by Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, Delhi's last year’s per capita income figure was Rs.2,52,011. "(The) Deputy Chief Minister informed that the per capita income of Delhi is 2,80,142 during 2015-16 (at current prices). It has ...

The government places the highest importance towards the DBT mode of payments as the preferred mode for reaching out to the financially disadvantaged, says President of India Source: PTI President Pranab Mukherjee addressing the inaugural of the 40th Anniversary Celebrations of Indian Civil Accounts Service, in New Delhi on Tuesday   Asserting that the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme ensures efficiency, President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday expressed hope that the government will include more welfare schemes in the e-payment mode in future. "The government places the highest importance towards the DBT mode of payments as the preferred mode for reaching out to the financially disadvantaged and excluded segments of our population," he said on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Indian ...