Aiming to provide assistance and teach people to use online platforms to carry out transactions, the district administration Bokaro is geared up to organise a Digi-Dhan Mela at library Ground in Sector 5 on 14 January. All banks and various governments departments, several industrial units and big traders will participate in the mela, informed an official.
The event will witness participation from banks, telecom companies, mobile wallet operators,
transportation network companies, Aadhaar-enabled payment system (AEPS) vendors, traders, cooperatives and big merchants, said the official. People will be given assistance in opening bank accounts and registrations for Aadhaar card.
During the fair, accounts opening facilities will be available there. Users will be teaches about digital payment mode such as RuPay Card, USSD, UPI and AEPS. E-posh machine will also be distributed in the fair, said the official.
“The digital transaction has increased manifold since after the demonetisation move, and more and more people are opting for cashless payments”, he said. Over 100 stalls including SAIl’s BSl, BPSCl, ONGC, Electrosteel, HPCl, Delip Bulidcon, CCl, BCCl, Dalmia Cement will be put up and representatives from banks will be present to help citizens get comfortable with online transactions, said the official.The motto of this fair is to train people to accept online payments via newly launched apps.
Participants will explain various options available for digital payments. They will also assist the visitors in downloading and installing various mobile apps for digital payments and help them do a digital transaction, said the official.