Palamu’s Satbarwa block will be made cashless block in this month of December said DC Palamu Ameet Kumar. Speaking at the first day of the more than a week long drive of cashless Jharkhand in Daltonganj Ameet Kumar said selection of Satbarwa has been done for several reasons.
Kumar said Satbarwa has three banks SBI, PNB and Vananchal Gramin Bank and has a fleet of ten panchayats. He further said here live primitive tribe group of people, van patta dwellers, miners and bidi makers. He said all efforts are on to make this block a cashless block by December 25. He appreciated DAV institutes here, which have gone cashless.
It was DC and none other speakers right from regional manager of SBI here down to elected zila parishad members who even remotely hinted at cyber crime not looking the other side. DC said the apprehension of cyber crime is there if one operates from café, uses someone else’s lap top etc but even then the risk is too minimal. The gathering found his concern genuine and down to earth.
He said 31 per cent account holders are yet to be linked to Adhar Card. 48 per cent Jan Dhan accounts in Palamu out of a total of 7, 97, 492 have zero transaction till date. He said zero transaction was 85% some two to three months back. He reiterated it is good activation of transaction has gone up in Jan Dhan accounts.
The DC added that rural populace must not have this feel that it is being imposed upon them rather the rural folks be encouraged to look towards the sweeping changes taking place in the field of money matters.
He spoke of subsidy coming on K oil going in accounts of the beneficiaries. He exhorted auto rickshaw drivers, hoteliers, restaurant owners, shop keepers to adopt this new mode of remaining cash less despite any ill effects on the trade or commerce or business.
He even asked the builders, contractors to take care of the labourers coming from the unorganized sector.
Repeating the coinage of PM ‘ mera mobile mera bank mera batuwa’ DC tried to convince the gathering that it is not any difficult to switch over to cashless mode if one has the will to do as he said youngsters will lap it up very soon.