Government will soon launch a mobile application to facilitate Aadhaar-linked digital payments and roll out a nation-wide program to train over 10 million people on e-payments.
According to PTI, IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the government is going to promote Aadhaar-enabled payment system (AEPS) in coordination with Finance Ministry. About 400 million bank accounts have been linked to Aadhaar.
He said that the government is working on a plan to connect rest of the accounts with Aadhaar numbers. He said that there are biometric devices which can be connected to smartphones and convert a smartphone into a Point of Sale (PoS) machine.
The customer will not need to share bank account details as the application will detect the bank account linked to the Aadhaar number with help of Unified Payment Interface (UPI). He said that Common Service Centers across country are already carrying out AEPS transactions and the government is converting same process in to a mobile app.
Prasad said that government will conduct workshops to train 14 lakh Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLE) across 500 districts and 6500 blocks about carrying out digital transactions which will be attended by Members of Parliament as well. As per the program, each VLE will train 40 individuals covering 80 lakh individuals and at least 10 shopkeepers with target to cover total of 25 merchants across country. He said that Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will organise a two-day event at Major Dhyanchand National Stadium in Delhi to create awareness about digital payments and also help people open bank accounts and enroll for Aadhaar.
He added that even migrant labors having Aadhaar will be provided help to open their bank accounts.
