District administration and banks will hold camps in every Village Panchayat in the State to promote digital currency from December 1. Accounts of all the people will be opened banks in the camps, with providing RuPey card to those who could not get it. Account holders will be informed about use of RuPey cards and keeping them same.
Every bank's branch will hold camp at least one in a day in a Gram Panchayat. District administration will extend its support in the camp. Secretary and Sarpanch of concerned Gram Panchayat will attend the camp. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today discussed roadmap for promotion of cashless transaction with bank officials and senior officers at Mantralaya. Chouhan said that the country is moving towards cashless economy and Madhya Pradesh cannot be a laggard.
The Chief Minister discussed the recommendations of the high level committee constituted for suggestions with bank officials. He said, a task force has been constituted to make the State no. 1 in use of plastic currency. The Task Force will establish coordination in procedure and action plan between State Government and banks. He said, a Proposal is under consideration to provide five lakh Point of Sale (POS) machines to five lakh traders to promote cashless transaction.
Chouhan said that intensive state wide campaign will be launched to make people aware of digital economy and literate with banks. He said, there won't be any practical problem after teething problems in use of digital currency and will be used in villages. He said, there cannot be better option plastic money to curb black money and corruption effectively.
It was informed that there are 2.22 crore bank accounts in Pradhanmantri Jan Dhan Yojana and `1,999 crores are deposited in them. Total 1.26 crore accounts have been linked with Aadhar no. All account holders will be given RuPey card. Noteworthy is that the e-payment system is already in the state and most of Government payments are being made through e-payment mode. Cyber treasury has promoted cashless transaction.