A meeting on digital payments was held here at HP Secretariat chaired by Rajiv Kumar, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.
Rajiv Kumar said that Government of India had set targets for all the States to conduct training workshops on Digital Payments for the citizens and encourage a cashless system.
These trainings would be conducted by involving various Government and non-Government functionaries in the field including Banks, Government employees, panchayats, Anganwadi workers, Asha workers, lok Mitra Kendra Operators, NGOs etc. In Himachal Pradesh, 52 such training sessions had already been conducted where more than 1000 lokmitra operators were trained on Digital Payments.
To ensure the participation of other functionaries, it was decided that block level workshops would be conducted with the help of concerned district and local administration where all the stakeholders would be called, educated about the steps to be followed for adopting Digital Payments.
A block-wise schedule and action plan for the same would chalk out by the Deputy Commissioners concerned. They would further create awareness about the Digital payments and cashless transactions. People will be trained about cashless system and they would also be made aware of the risks and security issues while using a Digital Payment system.
Discussion was also held on different payment platforms available for the citizens, requirement of training, security issues, connectivity and all other aspects of Digital Payments.
During the meeting, it was informed that two villages in our State, Tundal village in Solan district and Sandhol village in Mandi district have already become cashless. Both the villages will be nominated for the Award announced by Government of India for the first 50 villages to go cashless.
Rajiv Kumar requested different departments of the State Government to start using Digital Payment for various Government fee and charges being collected by them. Principal Secretary, IT, Jagdish Chander assured that all the required measures would be taken to expedite the adoption of cashless system in the State for which he sought requisite support from the central government.
Director, IT, Manasi Sahay Thakur, SIO-NIC Ajay Chahal and officers of different government departments were also present in the meeting.