The minister said that the government will reimburse transaction charges levied on digital payments made by persons to the merchant as part of the merchant discount rate (MDR).
Delivering her address at the centenary celebrations of the city-based Tamilnad Mercantile Bank here, Sitharaman said even during Covid-19 pandemic with the use of digitisation through banking correspondents, the government's financial disbursements were distributed to the needy after verifying their details.
With nearly 70% population living in rural parts of the country and many who migrated to urban centres too facing huge pay disparity, there is little empowerment of those hailing from the interiors of the country.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information and Technology on Monday informed that India will host the first Internet Governance Forum in the country.
Speaking at a virtual event to mark the completion of six years of Digital India, Modi said India is also conscious of its responsibilities as a data powerhouse and noted that work is underway on all aspects of data protection.
The Bihar government's initiative to transfer financial assistance directly to the accounts of beneficiaries during the COVID-19 pandemic has made its departments winners of the Digital India Awards.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced that every village in the country will be connected by the optical fibre cable (OFC) in the next 1,000 days, nearly 3 years.
G20 Summit 2020 will take place by the end of this year and prior to this, Union Minister of Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad will address the G20 Digital Minister's meeting today.
The conference was organised by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to celebrate 5 Years of Digital India progressing towards Digital Bharat - AatmaNirbhar Bharat.
Sixty-seven per cent of digital workers in India said emerging technologies such as machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) are increasing their effectiveness at work, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc.
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Digital India initiative should be leveraged to transform rural India and create avenues for those in smaller towns and cities, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Monday.
he gift is a digital compilation of Modi's journey so far divided into four chapters - "Childhood, young NaMo, Modi and For the first time since Independence".
As part of its vision of providing a One Government experience to citizens, the Modi government is moving forward rapidly to implement the India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) --a single window digitisation solution for cashless, paperless and faceless services.
Maharashtra Higher and Technical Education Minister Vinod Tawde launched the database portal 'academisthan.com' here on Wednesday.
Outlining an ambitious vision for Digital India 2.0, the minister exhorted Indian IT companies and its apex software body Nasscom to participate in creation of 'Digital Villages' in the country, and supplement the government's efforts in the digital literacy movement.
The Central sector projects are BharatNet to provide affordable broadband services to citizens and institutions in rural areas where the financial outlay was Rs 8,000 crore in last fiscal.
Survey was done by Vivoki India, a research analytics and Knowledge processing startup, in four metros. The sample survey size was 5,000.
Prasad was also shown demonstration of cutting-edge innovations on the Google Campus, along with a glimpse into upcoming features in popular Google products.
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