To promote digital payments in a big way to move towards a cashless society, Haryana Government has deputed administrative secretaries to supervise the awareness campaigns to be organized on war footing in various districts of the State.
The State Government will launch a massive awareness campaign to promote digital payments in Haryana, which would begin with seminars of opinion makers to be held in all districts on December 2.
All deputy commissioners would organise the seminars, which would include the Member of Parliament and Members of legislative Assembly of the district, said an official spokesman.
These seminar would also be attended by Chairman and Members of Zila Parishad, Chairman of the Block Samitis, Mayor or President, Municipal Committee, representatives of prominent social organisations and voluntary bodies, prominent educational institutions and lead District Manager and senior officials of banks.
Giving details about deputing the administrative secretaries, the spokesman said that SS Dhillon, Hardeep Kumar, SS Prasad, SK Gulati and M Ram Niwas have been deputed to supervise the campaign in districts Faridabad, Ambala, Yamunanagar, Mahendragarh and Gurgaon, respectively.
Similarly, districts Nuh, Palwal, Kurukshetra, Jind, Karnal, Rohtak, Sonepat and Panchkula have been allotted to PK Mahapatra, Dhanpat Singh, Vijai Vardhan, Rajni Sekhri Sibal, Sanjeev Kaushal, VS Kundu, PK Das and Alok Nigam, respectively.
RR Jowel, Amit Jha, SN Roy, Mahavir Singh, Sumita Misra, Anil Malik, Shrikant Walgad and. Abhilaksh likhi would supervise the campaign in districts Sirsa, Kaithal, Hisar, Bhiwani, Fatehabad, Panipat, Jhajjar and Rewari, respectively.
The spokesman said that these administrative secretaries would organise meeting of all district officials to educate them regarding digital payments and ensure that they themselves install digital payment apps on their mobile phones.
They would also encourage the involvement of Members of Parliament, Members of legislative Assembly, Presidents of Zila Parishads, Mayors, Chairmen Block Samitis and Members of Municipal Corporations in spreading awareness about digital payments, said he.
The administrative secretaries would also ensure that RuPay cards were issued to the Jan Dhan account holders and that 100 per cent of the RuPay cards were activated, as the Central Government had issued instructions to banks to achieve this target by December 5, said the spokesman.
Out of 54.87 lakh Jan Dhan accounts, RuPay cards have been issued to 46.37 lakh account holders till November 23, of which only 33.69 lakh RuPay cards had been activated by October 31, 2016.
He said that the administrative secretaries would also launch a campaign to open bank accounts in respect of those workers of organised and unorganised sectors who do not have their own bank accounts. Special camps would be organised at every labour Chowk in all towns by Department of labour in coordination with lead banks.
The senior bureaucrats would also ensure installation of POS machines in government offices where cash payments are received, apart from utilisation of Common Service Centres both for creating awareness and installation of digital payment apps on mobile phones of the people in the villages.
Apart from this, meetings of college principals, principals of senior secondary schools and school headmasters would also be held and it would be ensured that they receive non-cash receipts in their organisation. The Secretaries would also focus on creating awareness amongst principals, headmasters and teachers of Education Department through messages telecast on the EDUSAT network.
The secretaries have also been asked to ensure the deployment of unemployed post-graduate under ‘SAKSHAM Scheme’ of Employment Department for creating awareness and assisting in uploading of digital payment apps. They would have a tie-up with Financial literacy Unit of the banks at the district level, the spokesman added.
Meanwhile, to make its campus cashless, YMCA University of Science and Technology, Faridabad Vice-Chancellor, Prof Dinesh Kumar, has issued directions to make all types of transactions cashless and to ensure provision of facility of different types of e-transactions in the campus.