Thursday, October 17, 2019

Digi incentive


It's an endeavour to ensure that one is not shortchanged in the digital payment. In this direction I always ensure that CNG stations press the right amount/figure in the card payment. I never knew the existence of anything like the digi incentive. When I found that while the screen showed ₹ 207.11 but the SMS notification showed a deduction of just ₹ 205.56 I made a close scrutiny. I found that an amount of ₹ 1.55 is deducted from the real charge of ₹207.11 and as a result net amount payable comes to ₹ 205.56. I

I googled the word digi incentive and hit upon the site https://www-getcertgo-com.cdn.ampproject

From the site it became clear thhat the digital Incentive scheme, the Government of India, Niti Aayog (National Institute for Transforming India) has come with a slew of incentives to digitize cash.
The broad objectives which NITI Aayog wants to modernize the payment system, promote transparency and accountability, reduce transaction costs, and decrease the size of the grey or informal economy, etc.

Three cheers for the digital economy !