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Moving ahead breakneck speed to boost cashless transactions, the Centre now proposes to rope in kirana shops with Meri Dukaan Digital Dukaan, an Aadhaar-linked payments mechanism, tailored on the lines of the ‘Paytm’ symbol.
According to The Hindu, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, and Law & Justice said that the more an Aadhaar-linked mechanism enables payments, the higher will be the use of cashless transactions. This would become the most convenient part of payments.
Prasad said his Ministry (MeitY) was promoting Aadhaar in a big way, along with the Finance Ministry, as 99.2 per cent of the total adult population has Aadhaar now.
He added that workshops for individual and shopkeepers were being organised and youths were being especially involved in the process.
He also said workshops to train village-level entrepreneurs and others would be held in 500 districts and 14 lakh people trained soon.
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The minister said the logo of ‘Meri Dukaan, Digital Dukaan’ (my shop accepts digital payments) will also be given to shopkeepers in villages so people could easily identify which shop was ready to accept online payments.
Prasad said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs were also asked to get involved with the government’s e-payment initiative.
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