To promote the digital transactions and to encourage the businessmen, ‘Digi-Dhan Mela’ would be organised in Bhopal on January 19, 2017.
Central Government would conduct the Digi-Dhan mela in hundred cities of the country. The mela would be organised in Indore on January 21 while it would also be organised in Gwalior, Jabalpur and Dewas.
Central Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan would inaugurate the mela in Bhopal. The mela would be organized by the Central Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the State Department of Information Technology.
Chief Secretary Basant Pratap Singh would conduct a meeting on Friday regarding Digi-Dhan mela. Principal Secretaries of the various departments, officials of BSNl and the officials of the central government would take part in the meeting.
Notably, the planning commission had written a letter to the chief secretary of the State to organise Digi-Dhan mela in MP. Bank accounts of the people would be opened while in assistance would be provided for the Aadhar enabled payment system (APES) accounts.
Description of the bank account and Aadhar card would be made mandatory for the getting the service in the mela.
Banks would establish booths and help centres to encourage the citizens for the cashless or digital transactions. People could learn the ways of the digital transactions and could also download the mobile applications regarding this.
People and the businessmen would be made aware about achievements of the digital transaction systems. The people would be able to do the real time digital transactions with the help of Digi-Dhan market.
Several banks, telecom companies, mobile wallet operators, transport network companies, post department, businessmen, cooperative committees and other committees would take part in the mela.
People, businessmen, vendors and the committees would be made aware about the mobile applications and other ways of the digital or cashless transactions.