Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today that the direct cash transfer of subsidies will miss its January 1 launch in districts where necessary arrangements, such as a digitised list of beneficiaries with the banks, are not in place. "We need a digitised list of beneficiaries for each district. If that is not ready, the scheme will not be launched on January 1," Mr Chidambaram said in Rajasthan's Alwar district.
