Summer vacation: Students to be engaged in digital financial

Come summer holidays, the HRD ministry will conduct second phase of its digital financial literacy campaign, which has over 4 lakh student-volunteers, to train public in cashless transactions.
Following the demonetisation decision announced by Prime Minister Narerndra Modi, the HRD ministry had last December started a digital financial literacy campaign.
Under the campaign, students were engaged as volunteers who educated their families and those in neighbourhood to use plastic money.
The campaign which ran till February 12 garnered response from 4,896 institutes from across the country of which 2,363 went cashless in their functioning.
Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today said that under the Vittiya Saksharta Abhiyan (VISAKA), nearly 4.30 lakh volunteers had registered and they "enlightened" nearly 19.34 lakh people in using digital modes of payments.

"During the summer holidays, we will start the programme again encouraging more students and institutions across the country to engage in the campaign," he added.

Javadekar made the comments at the National Convention of Student Volunteers where 400 best volunteers were awarded, along with 20 institutions, that were identified as excelling in their efforts in spreading digital financial literacy.
The campaign aims to train students about how to open a bank account, link mobile number and the Aadhaar Card with the account and other information required for digital literacy.
Under the programme, they will be imparted training in Aadhaar-based payment system, pre-paid card, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), mobile wallet and Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD).

The HRD ministry had also advised heads of educational institutions to give credits to students for taking forward the financial literacy campaign for a cashless economy.