The Rajasthan government has launched a wallet app under its Bhamashah program, Inc42 reports. This has been launched in partnership with Yes Bank. The government's Bhamashah scheme is aimed at "financial inclusion, women empowerment and effective service delivery," according to a brochure (pdf) for the program. Each family under the program is issued a 'Bhamashah card' which is linked to a resident's bank account via their Aadhaar number. The scheme is designed to manage everything from public distribution system (PDS) rations to direct benefit transfer (DBT) payments from the government to citizens' bank accounts. Enrolling on Bhamashah To enroll on Bhamashah, the Rajasthan government provides an Aadhaar-based method where it auto-populates the fields based on "data already available with the State". This probably relies on Rajasthan's State Resident Data Hub provided to it by the UIDAI. But that database, along with all the…
