Committee to oversee implementation of digital transactions

An empowerment committee has been set up by the Puducherry government to promote and oversee the implementation of digital transactions in the Union Territory.
An official release today said, the Council of Ministers had constituted the committee to be headed by the Development Commissioner G Narendra Kumar.
The committee comprises all Secretaries, District Collectors of Puducherry and Karaikal, Directors of Civil Supplies and Information Technology, the Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, Superintending Engineer of Electricity department and convenor of the State Level Bankers Committee.
The Director of Planning and Research Department is the member secretary, it said.
The first meeting of the committee held here yesterday addressed measures to alleviate problems faced by people in carrying out cash transactions.

The government departments needed 1,700 Point of Sale devices (swipe machines) and the Lead Bank Manager here had been apprised of the requirement and requested to make the machines available to the departments.

The release further said, the Secretary to Department of Civil Supplies had sought special type of PoS (point of sales) machines to be used in ration shops that could detect and read small cards details also.
Bankers in Puducherry have been requested to supply as many as 5000 PoS devices to traders.
All the government staff, heads of schools and colleges, students here have been asked to take up awareness programmes on digital payments.

Members of the self-help groups would also be trained at village level and they would in turn train villagers in their areas of operation, it said.
Municipal officials would educate street vendors on linking their bank accounts with mobile banking mode, it added.
Around 12,000 dealers paying commercial taxes would be trained by officials of the Commercial Taxes department with a training module n customised to suit their needs.
The Lead District Managers have been asked to arrange for distribution of 4,000 RuPay cards to the farmers holding bank accounts in the Gramin Bank, immediately.
Besides, the Labour department has been assigned with the task of training licensees of shops and establishments on digital banking, the release said.