Designed for the Indian market and built on the government-supported Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Tez allows users, free of charge, to make small or big payments straight from their bank accounts
To incentivise payments made through digital modes for booking of reserved tickets, online through IRCTC, have extended the waiver on service charges
From buying tickets, food items at catering stalls to paying at luggage and parcel counters, the stations going cashless have facility for making these payments through credit cards or mobile wallets
Micro ATM, in the most basic terms, is a card reader and PIN Pad device to do banking transactions in remotest locations where there are no bank branches because of connectivity issues, and other unfavourable conditions
The entire shopping complex in the region has Wi-Fi facility and businessmen have Point of sale (POS) machines and each shopkeeper has e-payment facility. The villagers use BHIM app and Paytm to pay for their shopping
Delhi Metro commuters will now be able to wear their smart cards on wrists to make payments at the gates
Going cashless is now the target of the universities and colleges - while some have already switched to the online payment mode for collecting fees, some are now looking at different ways to make other transactions - such as parking fee, journal fee and canteen payments - digital
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