Odisha government has decided to go cashless for land registration process from September 1, official sources said. Demand draft and cheques will be accepted in case of any inconvenience regarding it, Revenue and disaster management minister Maheswar Mohanty said. Mohanty…
According to an article in Times of India, With the country reeling from a cash crisis post-demonetisation, a 17-year-old science student from Odisha’s Nuapada district has devised a technique to generate electricity from scrapped Rs 500 notes. His innovation has now…
Odisha government is planning for its office to shift to digital payments. It has started the process for procurement and installation of Point of Sale (PoS) devices like mobile PoS and Aadhaar based payments. Apart from government offices, state-controlled PSUs and…
As per this article from Business Standard as the country gradually switches over to a more formal, cashless economy, villages in Odisha are catching up with other states. Having officially declared Nuagaon in Puri district as her first cashless village…
In a first-of-its-kind initiative in micro-finance post-demonetisation, 60,000 small borrowers from six small villages in Odisha are leading the way towards cashless transactions. This was made possible thanks to a pilot done by Bharat Financial Inclusion (formerly SKS Microfinance) for…
Narendra Modi recently launched BHIM, India’s very own e-wallet app. Currently available only on Android, the app supports English and Hindi languages as of now. But if a report is to be believed, BHIM will soon support up to seven…
After demonitisation in order to promote cashless transactions, the East Coast Railways (ECoR) Wednesday introduced point of sale (POS) machine at the computerised reservation counter of Bhubaneswar railway station. Over the next few days, the reservation counters at all major…
Rural areas in Odisha are preparing to be in step with the rest of the country in going cashless. After Puri’s Nuagaon çame to be described as the state’s first cashless village, Paytm is helping Manguli village, on the outskirts…
The much-awaited paddy procurement in Ganjam district started with opening of 47 mandis (procurement centres) recently. “Taking into account the cash crunch, the payment would be made to the farmers through online mode without any cash transactions,” said district civil…
In sync with the Narendra Modi government’s digital push, the Naveen Patnaik-led government in Odisha will soon launch a state-wide awareness campaign on digital payment at the grassroots level. The government plans to engage students having a smartphone as volunteer…