Odisha government has decided to go cashless for land registration process from September 1, official sources said. Demand draft and cheques will be accepted in case of any inconvenience regarding it, Revenue and disaster management minister Maheswar Mohanty said. Mohanty…
Bhuabenswar residents may be able to pay holding tax, trade licence fees, electricity and water bills online by August. BMC plans to go completely digital by August and to begin with, it has entered into agreements with State Bank of India, ICICI Bank…
Odisha government is planning for its office to shift to digital payments. It has started the process for procurement and installation of Point of Sale (PoS) devices like mobile PoS and Aadhaar based payments. Apart from government offices, state-controlled PSUs and…
As per this article from Business Standard as the country gradually switches over to a more formal, cashless economy, villages in Odisha are catching up with other states. Having officially declared Nuagaon in Puri district as her first cashless village…
In a first-of-its-kind initiative in micro-finance post-demonetisation, 60,000 small borrowers from six small villages in Odisha are leading the way towards cashless transactions. This was made possible thanks to a pilot done by Bharat Financial Inclusion (formerly SKS Microfinance) for…
Rural areas in Odisha are preparing to be in step with the rest of the country in going cashless. After Puri’s Nuagaon çame to be described as the state’s first cashless village, Paytm is helping Manguli village, on the outskirts…