10 Districts & 50 Panchayats which go cashless by pushing digital payments to get incentives from Govt

New Delhi, Dec 5 (KNN) The Ministry of MSME, on social media websites, said the Government has firmed up its plans to take the Digital Payment Communication Campaign to district, taluka and panchayat levels.

The NITI Aayog has said that the top ten best performing districts will be awarded the Digital Payment Champions of India award and the first 50 Panchayats which go cashless will be awarded Digital Payment Award of Honour.

NITI Aayog, in a press release on Sunday, had said that with a view to provide logistic support to the IEC activities- information, education and communication, holding camps for transiting to the digital mode of payment, the Government has undertaken a series of measures to provide incentives to the district administration which will give a boost to cashless digital payment systems across the districts, talukas and panchayats.

NITI Aayog has enlisted a series of incentives for the communication campaign for the district authorities and administration to promote the transition to the cashless digital payment systems.

These include incentives for digital payments for day to day financial transactions like buying or selling goods/services, transferring money etc.

NITI Aayog said it will provide logistic support for outreach activities at the district, taluk and panchayat level in form of the seed money of Rs.5lakh per district administration as a part of the communication campaign.

“The purpose is to enhance the seeding of Mobile and Aadhar numbers to the bank account, issue of Rupay cards wherever necessary, issue of PIN wherever necessary, downloading of app wherever necessary and finally achieving two successful transactions,” it said.

The top ten best performing districts will be awarded the Digital Payment Champions of India award.

The first 50 Panchayats which go cashless will be awarded Digital Payment Award of Honour.

The five digital payment systems are - Unified Payment Interface, UPI; USSD (*99#banking); Adhar Enabled Systems; Wallets & Rupay/Debit/Credit/Prepaid Cards

The Hindi/English version of the brochure which gives step by step approach to each of the five options is available on the website- www.niti.gov.in/conetent/digital-payments.

In order to help spread the message of advantages of digital payment systems , NITI Aayog has collated and put up the entire sets of creative material – presentations/posters./FM radio spots/ films on its website dedicated to the digital payments- www.niti.gov.in/conetent/digital-payments.

In addition, Common Service Networks are being mobilized to enlist the support of people and the merchants in going cashless.