Hazaribagh Deputy Commissioner Ravishankar Shukla today said that to promote cashless transactions the collectorate area and Jhanda chowk area, which is the main market site of the town will be made free Wi-FI zones. Shukla had an interaction with the media persons about the decisions taken till date in implementation of ambitious program of promoting cashless transaction systems and the Swacch Bharat mission in the district here on Monday.
Reminding everyone present in the press meet DC Ravishankar Shukla said that our DTO office has become the first cashless office of the state and efforts are on to make all the government offices situated at district headquarter cashless within a month. He also informed that the state government has given the task to make the blocks cashless in phase wise manner and the sadar block has been chosen to be made cashless first.
In sadar block we have selected Hutpa and North Okni panchayats to be made cashless and hoped that this target will be achieved soon.
Talking about the need of more and more E-pause machines for the success of cashless transactions DC Shukla said that I have talked with the bank officials and they have assured me that by the end of this month they will be in a position to supply the machines to the willing shopkeepers.
On the effect of demonetization DC Shukla said that Hazaribagh is a fortunate district where there are so many bank branches which worked hard in making the situation normal in very less time. On the basis of his talks with the bank officials he added that by the end of last week of December there will be ample amounts in bank branches and the ATMs which are not working yet will start serving the people.
On the issue of Swacch Bharat mission and the special survey program going to start in the month of January DC Shukla said that till today we were urging the people and shopkeepers to use dustbins to dump their garbage but still many shopkeepers are not using it.
Now the district administration has decided to go tough against such erring shopkeepers and from tomorrow onwards we are going to charge fines to such shopkeepers.