Over one crore rural citizens enrol for digital payments under Digi Dhan Abhiyan

Over one crore rural citizens have enrolled for digital payments under the Digi Dhan Abhiyan programme within 20 days of the start of the digital financial literacy campaign under which the Common Service Centres are training people in rural areas on various digital financial solutions and also familiarizing them with various modes of e-payment. 

Addressing a press conference in New Delhi yesterday, Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, under the programme, the Ministry had set a target of reaching out to 80 lakh citizens and 25 lakh merchants for training. He said, it has surpassed the target and have trained one crore five lakh



people. 

Besides enrollment of rural citizens, over three lakh merchants have started offering digital payment options to consumers in rural area. Mr Prasad said, digital transactions in the country have also seen substantial jump across-the-board post demonetisation. He said, the number of transactions through RuPay cards soared 445 per cent between 8th of last month to 26th of this month. 

Mr Prasad said, Madhya Pradesh has registered highest 15 lakh enrollments, while Chhattisgarh registered 2 lakh 50,000 enrollments. The Minister said, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh have recorded the highest number of merchant enrollment crossing 60,000 shopkeepers each.