Twenty-year-old Shradha Mengshette, a second year student of Electrical Engineering from latur district in Maharashtra, emerged as the winner of Rs 1 crore mega draw for digital consumers, Hardik Kumar from Khambhat (Cambay) in Gujarat walked away with second prize of Rs 50 lakh under the lucky Grahak Yojana.
While Shradha won the Rs 1 crore prize for making a transaction of Rs 1,590 through her RuPay card online, to pay the monthly EMI for her new mobile phone, Hardik — a primary school teacher — bagged Rs 50 lakh prize for using his RuPay card for making a transaction of Rs 1,100.
Similarly, the first prize of Rs 50 lakh, under the Digi-Dhan Vyapar Yojana category for merchants, was won by Anand Ananthapadmanabhan for accepting a payment of Rs 300 at GRT Jewellers in Tambaram, Chennai.
Anantapadmanabhan instantly donated his prize money to the Clean Ganga campaign.
As the initial two incentives schemes viz lucky Grahak Yojana and Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojana, came to an end after rigorous 100-day information, education and communication campaign led by NITI Aayog, the Prime Minister felicitated the winners of the Mega Draw in Nagpur on Friday.