New Delhi, December 27, 2016: (UNI) Promoting digital payment options as an integral part of government’s overall strategy to weed out black money and corruption from public life, the government will launch the first draw of the Lucky Grahak Yojana to provide a cashback of Rs 1,000 to 15,000 consumers every day for the next 100 days tomorrow.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Electronics & Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will inaugurate the draw here.
To create awareness in different parts of the country, this event would be followed in 100 different cities across India over the next 100 days until March.
NITI Aayog has been tasked to undertake a comprehensive campaign on advocacy, awareness and co-ordinate handholding efforts among general public, micro enterprises and other stakeholders for digital payments.
With the goal of ensuring that easy and user-friendly methods of digital payments become a mass movement in India, the government also announced a slew of incentives to encourage general public to move from cash to a digital platform. – United News of India
