Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday strongly backed the Centre’s new Cash transfer scheme that will ensure cash transfer directly in the hands of beneficiaries of various schemes, saying it is in line with many other “revolutionary” measures taken by the UPA.

Gandhi, who is also UPA Chairperson, also announced her intent to bring the much-talked out Food Security Bill in Parliament soon to ensure that no poor family remains hungry.

She made the remarks while unveiling the Delhi government’s ambitious food programme ‘Annashree’ under which monthly cash subsidy of Rs 600 will be transferred directly into bank account of the senior-most female member of two lakh poor families.

While hailing the scheme as the country’s first totally Aadhar-based cash transfer programme, Gandhi chose the occasion to highlight the central government’s Direct Benefit Transfer system.