Cashless Village

India is aiming to be a digital economy and a less-cash society. But the aim of digital transactions for curbing corruption and ensuring transparency can be fully achieved only when citizens in the remotest corners of the country are able to carry out cashless transactions.

Last year, Chatonguri village in Morigaon district of Assam made headlines when it became one of the first villages to witness cashless transactions.

From connectivity issues to electricity, life in Badhjiri, which grabbed headlines last year for being the first cashless village in Madhya Pradesh, has come a full circle.

In Misirpur -- the first cashless village in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi -- life has come a full circle for Asha Devi. The 70-year-old became a media celebrity last year, posing with and even using a Point of Sale Machine, better known as a swipe machine, egged on by eager bank officials.

The 'silk and milk' village of Vondaraguppe, in Karnataka's Ramanagara district, is going cashless. Or at least that is the aim as part of the central government's push toward a digital, cashless society. The reality is that while many are enjoying the advantages of digital transactions -- including dairy farmers and pensioners -- it isn't quite so...

An initiative to make a remote village cashless in the Naxal-affected Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh was today rewarded for excellence in public administration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Cashless transactions may be the latest buzzword in the country's economic arena, but in a small hamlet about 32 km from Guwahati, members of Assam's Tiwa tribe meet every year to carry out a unique trade fair where the dealings are totally cashless.

It has been over a month since the notes ban came into effect and the centre is encouraging people across the country to do cashless transactions. In a bid to promote cashless economy, especially in rural India, the Madhya Pradesh Government along with a public sector bank has made a village digital to facilitate cashless transactions.

38-year-old Naresh Nath is among the first few rural villagers in Assam who have started to transact cashless. Like him at least 2,000 other villagers of Chatonguri in Assam's Morigaon district, 110 kilometres from Guwahati, have started to buy their essentials from their tiny village market digitally.

Bhopal: With shops equipped with Point of Sale (PoS) machines, ATMs and kiosks for online payment facilities, Badjhiri in Madhya Pradesh will soon become first ‘cashless’ village in the state. “A nationalised bank has come up with a plan in cooperation with the state government to transform Badjhiri into a cashless village,” said Madhya Pra...

A tribal village in Chhattisgarh has virtually become cashless with its residents adopting digital mode to make payments.

In Jayapur, the Uttar Pradesh village adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the parliamentarian from Varanasi, cash versus cashless is being debated in a line of about 30 people waiting to draw money from an ATM at 9 in the morning.

Telangana government today said Ibrahimpur village in Siddipet Assembly constituency has become cashless, claiming it is the first hamlet in south India do so.

Amid the Centre's push for digital transaction, Dhasai village in Thane district has become the first "cashless village" in Maharashtra, state Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said today.

Amid the Centre's push for digital transaction, Dhasai village in Thane district has become the first "cashless village" in Maharashtra, state Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said today.

India is aiming to be a digital economy and a less-cash society. But the aim of digital transactions for curbing corruption and ensuring transparency can be fully achieved only when citizens in the remotest corners of the country are able to carry out cashless transactions.

Last year, Chatonguri village in Morigaon district of Assam made headlines when it became one of the first villages to witness cashless transactions.

From connectivity issues to electricity, life in Badhjiri, which grabbed headlines last year for being the first cashless village in Madhya Pradesh, has come a full circle.

In Misirpur -- the first cashless village in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi -- life has come a full circle for Asha Devi. The 70-year-old became a media celebrity last year, posing with and even using a Point of Sale Machine, better known as a swipe machine, egged on by eager bank officials.

The 'silk and milk' village of Vondaraguppe, in Karnataka's Ramanagara district, is going cashless. Or at least that is the aim as part of the central government's push toward a digital, cashless society. The reality is that while many are enjoying the advantages of digital transactions -- including dairy farmers and pensioners -- it isn't quite so...

An initiative to make a remote village cashless in the Naxal-affected Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh was today rewarded for excellence in public administration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Cashless transactions may be the latest buzzword in the country's economic arena, but in a small hamlet about 32 km from Guwahati, members of Assam's Tiwa tribe meet every year to carry out a unique trade fair where the dealings are totally cashless.

It has been over a month since the notes ban came into effect and the centre is encouraging people across the country to do cashless transactions. In a bid to promote cashless economy, especially in rural India, the Madhya Pradesh Government along with a public sector bank has made a village digital to facilitate cashless transactions.

38-year-old Naresh Nath is among the first few rural villagers in Assam who have started to transact cashless. Like him at least 2,000 other villagers of Chatonguri in Assam's Morigaon district, 110 kilometres from Guwahati, have started to buy their essentials from their tiny village market digitally.

Bhopal: With shops equipped with Point of Sale (PoS) machines, ATMs and kiosks for online payment facilities, Badjhiri in Madhya Pradesh will soon become first ‘cashless’ village in the state. “A nationalised bank has come up with a plan in cooperation with the state government to transform Badjhiri into a cashless village,” said Madhya Pra...

A tribal village in Chhattisgarh has virtually become cashless with its residents adopting digital mode to make payments.

In Jayapur, the Uttar Pradesh village adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the parliamentarian from Varanasi, cash versus cashless is being debated in a line of about 30 people waiting to draw money from an ATM at 9 in the morning.

Telangana government today said Ibrahimpur village in Siddipet Assembly constituency has become cashless, claiming it is the first hamlet in south India do so.

Amid the Centre's push for digital transaction, Dhasai village in Thane district has become the first "cashless village" in Maharashtra, state Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said today.

Amid the Centre's push for digital transaction, Dhasai village in Thane district has become the first "cashless village" in Maharashtra, state Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said today.