Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed the progress of Aadhar and Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) programmes at a high-level meeting in New Delhi yesterday. In the meeting, Mr Modi was informed about the progress made in Aadhar number generation and seeding of official databases with Aadhar numbers. <br/><br/>He was also informed that in 2015-16, 61,000 crore rupees were distributed to over 30 crore beneficiaries using Direct Benefit Transfer. This includes over 25,000 crore rupees in MGNREGA and over 21,000 crore rupees in PAHAL for LPG.