Beneficiary Registration

Benefi­ciaries for any scheme need to be ­first informed about the scheme details, its benefi­ts and the process of receiving the benefi­ts.

Beneficiary registration is the first step in the processing of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) schemes in Ni-kshay. Patients after diagnosed and notified as “Pending Treatment” or “On Treatment” who haven’t updated the Beneficiary status has to enter their bank details to register.

Ni-kshay maintains a Bank Master and only banks available in Public Financial Management System (PFMS) can be used to make payments. Users need to enter their IFSC Code and Ni-kshay auto-populates the details of the bank. Then the user is expected to enter their account number and click “Save”.

If a bene­ficiary does not have a bank account/ is a paediatric patient, they may be linked to an account of one of their family members with written consent/ authorisation from the beneficiary. But the bank account needs to be unique to be registered in Ni-kshay.

Then the request is sent to PFMS to validate the active bank account details. Once validated by PFMS, the beneficiary status will change to “Validated” and will be sent to DBT Checker (at District Tuberculosis Officer (DTO) Office) for approval.

The DBT checker will approve the bank account details and the beneficiary status will be reflected in Ni-kshay as entered.

On successful validation of the Bank details of the benefi­ciary, the benefi­ts of the bene­ficiary can be processed.

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Figure: Process of beneficiary registration in Ni-kshay

Valid documents (passbook/ bank statement/ cancelled cheque) from the benefi­ciary should be collected and maintained at the Peripheral Health Institution (PHI) and produced at the time of veri­fication.

Video: Determining the Beneficiary status

Resource

• Direct Benefit Transfer Manual for National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme; MoHFW, Government of India, 2020.

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