Telangana News

Even an Aadhar card helps in making India, a cashless economy.

Revealing about it, Ajay Pandey, director general of the UIDAI, said, “The Aadhaar-enabled transactions are card-less and pin-less. This would enable mobile android phones users to digitally transact using their Aadhaar number and fingerprint/iris authentication.”

He opined that it would require a multi-pronged strategy. “We are asking mobile manufacturers to see if all mobiles made in India should be inbuilt with iris or thumb identification system so as to help Aadhaar-enabled transactions,” NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said.

Kant is part of the chief ministers committee, which will lay out a roadmap for the  implementation of digital payments over the next 1 year. He further added that the government is creating a system of incentives/disincentives so that cash transactions become expensive and people are incentivized enough to pay digitally, in parallel.

On the other side, IT secretary Aruna Sundarajan opened up that, the ministry has kept aside Rs 100 crores to incentivize enrollment of merchants on to the digital platform to help push the drive. 

“IT department is providing the incentive of Rs 100 for every merchant enrolled through over two lakh common service centres across India. The ministry will undertake a major outreach communication campaign starting from Monday to ensure that every segment of population is enables to use one of other mode of digital payment,” she said.