Provide an overview of the need and role of DSCs in DBT payments in NTEP

Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) Approver, also known as the ‘Data Approver’ (DA), is a district-level role assigned in Public Financial Management System (PFMS) for approving the DBT payments sent from Ni-kshay to PFMS after successful validation by PFMS.

The DBT Checker performs the following functions:

Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) maker is designated by the District TB Officer (DTO) at the Tuberculosis Unit (TU) level, responsible for ensuring timely processing of the beneficiaries and their eligible benefits. In Ni-kshay, the ‘DBT maker’ role is created under the ‘Staff Management’ function of Ni-kshay via mobile phone based One Time Password (OTP) based authentication. 

The DBT Maker is responsible for :

Benefi­ciaries largely play a passive role in relation to DBT operations by providing and receiving information. 

All beneficiaries of all schemes in National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP) need to be informed about the :

The beneficiary should, share their valid bank account details.

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