Chief Minister Raman Singh on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision of demonetisation is based on cashless economy.
He expressed these thoughts in the 17th episode of his monthly radio programme 'Raman Ke Goth' aired from Raipur centre of All India Radio.
The Chief Minister praised the initiatives of shops, haat-bazaars, commercial establishments and other organizations for promoting cashless transactions.He mentioned in detail about the steps being taken for promoting cashless transactions in state.
Singh informed the listeners that 15 lakh citizens have been trained in Chhattisgarh to form state's 'Digital Army'. Moreover, 'Mor Khisa' mobile app has has been launched to promote e-transactions.He said “This mobile app provides five options of cashless transactions at one click.”Singh said that cards have been issued to 11 lakh farmers in the State to make it easier for them to opt for cashless transaction.
The State Government has set the target of making 12,000 ration shops and 9,000 Common Service Centres (CSCs) cashless as soon as possible. People in all the cities, localities and villages tuned their radios and listened to Chief Minister's programme with enthusiasm. School students also showed keen interest in listening to 'Raman Ke Goth' programme.Singh informed that under the special campaign conducted in the State last month to train people in digital transactions, 15 lakh people were trained in the record time period of 20 days.
This includes 14 lakh common people and one lakh traders. These trained citizens have been termed as 'Digital Army'.The Chief Minister informed that Chhattisgarh has become the first state of the country to provide training to maximum number of people in cashless transactions. Till December 31, we provided training to three times more number of people than given target.
In every district, this training campaign is being conducted efficiently, as a result of which the number of traders and common people trained in cashless transactions are increasing with each passing day, he said.Singh said “I believe that soon the entire 2.5 crore population of Chhattisgarh will be trained in cashless transactions and each citizen of the state will be the soldier of our 'Digital Army'. This will also promote digital literacy.”
He said : “Our digital army will become a medium of public-empowerment. On December 9, Master trainers were provided training in Raipur, and these master trainers went on a mission to conduct digital transaction training from gram panchayat to district-level and from haat-bazaars to traders in cities.”