How ATMs are amping up tech power, innovation to serve as mini banks

Picture this. In a remote Tamil Nadu village, a man walks briskly, stopping occasionally to ask a passing local something. One person points him to a fuel station. With an expression of disbelief, he approaches it and tells an attendant what he needs. He is pleasantly surprised when she takes his debit card, processes it in a hand-held swipe machine, and gives him the cash he had asked for.
 
A silent revolution is playing out in the field of banking transactions in India. In the last 12 months, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has brought in nearly 10