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Exploring tech, legal provisions to keep e-Rupee transactions 'anonymous'

It will weigh its options as things evolve but will ensure the anonymity of transactions up to a certain limit, which is a basic feature of cash transactions

RBI Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar
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RBI Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar

Subrata Panda Mumbai
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is exploring technological solutions to keep retail transactions using the digital rupee ‘anonymous’.
 
Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar said the central bank could also explore legal provisions to keep the transactions anonymous. It will weigh its options as things evolve but will ensure the anonymity of transactions up to a certain limit, which is a basic feature of cash transactions. 
 
At a post-monetary policy press conference, Sankar said, “A fundamental feature of cash is anonymity. One of the reasons it is still being used in many developed countries to a large extent is because