Heading towards cashless activities, Visakhapatnam would record as first ‘Cashless City’ in India in all aspects of daily needs payments. From RTC ticket to current bills, daily need purchase, petrol bills, hotels, local tourism, cinema etc. would be cashless in reality in near future in Visakha, promising State’s IT Minister Nara lokesh put target to the Visa Company, the technology developer. In Friday’s review meeting with officials and the developer, lokesh suggested certain changes to Cashless Transactions App proposed to use for tourism purpose in the growing cosmopolitan city.
“There wouldn’t be any additional surcharge on consumers using cashless transactions rather some incentives to them for using cashless transactions”, lokesh directed the officers.
The IT giant HCl would start its operations in Amaravati by this December, lokesh told in another program. Inaugurating PhiCare IT Services Company along with Principle Secretary K Vijayanand on Friday in Mangalagiri IT SEZ, in spread area of 22 acres, had already attracted Rs 220 crores investment, would create 10,000 employment by 2019, lokesh informed. “When CM Chandrababu Naidu created Cyberabad, every one laughed at him. Today Cyberabad is one of the best IT Hub. likewise Amaravati IT Cluster spreading in 200 acres would stand at peak very soon as many IT MNCs are coming forward to invest billions of dollars”, he ascertained the future.