Sonepat District was honoured for digital payments under cashless campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a function organised in Vigyan Bhawan at Delhi on Saturday.
An official spokesperson said that the award along with a cheque of Rs 10 lakh was received by Vinay Singh, Deputy Commissioner Sonepat at Vigyan Bhawan. Out of total 100 districts competing, only two districts were being honoured with Sonepat at the top rank.
After demonetisation, Prime Minister appealed all the people of the country to opt digital payments mode and campaign for this was started throughout the country. With the support of people and regular monitoring by the higher authorities of the State, the campaign proved to be a success.
The spokesman said that all the 366 ration shops of the district are doing their transactions on digital mode and 100 per cent petrol pumps had instralled POC machines. In addition e-disha centres, and business transactions have become cashless and now successfully working on digital mode.