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The Digital India programme is a flagship programme of the Government of India with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. “Faceless, Paperless, Cashless” is one of professed role of Digital India.

Achievement In Project

Digital Finance for Rural India: Creating Awareness and Access through Common Service Centers (CSCs)

Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has launched a new scheme entitled “Digital Finance for Rural India: Creating Awareness and Access through Common Service Centers (CSCs)” under Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA) with objectives to enable the CSCs to become Digital Financial Hubs, by hosting awareness sessions on government policies and digital finance options available for rural citizens as well as enabling various mechanism of digital financial services such as IMPS, UPI, Bank PoS machines etc. with an outlay of Rs. 65.625 Crore.

2 lakhs Common Service Centers (CSCs) to provide capacity building, awareness access for digital payments methods to around 1 Crore rural citizens and 25 lakhs merchants across India. Each CSC would reach out to 40 households in the catchment area, covering one person from each household. Apart from rural citizens, each CSC would also target 10 Merchants per Panchayat to facilitate them in getting POS machines or digital payment mechanism.

With restless efforts in said project Mehsana is First District in DIGITAL JAGRITI ABHIYAN in Whole Gujarat also Gujarat is amongst top 5 state in India.