Digital payment promotion gets boost

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New Delhi : The government’s efforts to give a boost to the digital payment systems and cashless economy, post-demonetisation have generated enthusiastic response from the people. People from different age groups, occupations and different walks of life have taken part in a big way in the `Lucky Grahak Yojana' and Digi-dhan Vyapar Yojana’ giving a fillip to digital transactions. More than 3.81 lakh consumers and 21,000 merchants have been declared the winners of prize money worth Rs.60.90 crore at 24 Digi-Dhan Melas across the country.

Giving the details, Union Minister for Law & Justice, Electronics and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad on January 19 said that n the Common Service Centres under the Department. of Electronics and Information Technology have trained 01.94 crore citizens and 5.93 lakh merchants so far for carrying out transactions through digital payment systems.

The prize money worth Rs. 60.90 crore to over 3.81 lakh winners of NITI Aayogs’s lucky draw schemes ‘Lucky Grahak Yojana (LGY)’  for consumers and ‘Digi-Dhan Vyapar Yojana ( DVY)’ for merchants has been declared at 24 Digi-Dhan Melas across the country – daily as well as weekly.   The lucky winners include 24 year old Ashutosh Mishra, a mobile shop owner in Rampur, Odisha, 24 year old Jadhav Amit Anil from Ghatkopar, Mumbai, 27 year old Mangesh Anantrao Jadhav from Nasik, 42 year old Suman Sapra from Ulsoor, Bengaluru, Tripta Devi, a 54 year old housekeeper from Andhra Pradesh, among others.The list includes winners from different walks of life including the small farmers, Anganwadi workers, housewives, labourers, etc, according to a PIB release.