AEPS full form is 'Aadhar Enabled Payment System'. AEPS payments is a digital money transfer mechanism built on top of Aadhar.
AEPS allows a bank customer to use Aadhaar as his/her identity to access his Aadhaar enabled bank account and perform basic banking transactions like balance enquiry, cash deposit, cash withdrawal, money transfers through a Business Correspondent.
NPCI and Niti Aayog has launched two new schemes named - "Lucky Grahak Yojana" and "Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojana" to promote use of digital transactions. Under these schemes, there will be weekly lucky draws and rewards for customers and merchants (shopkeepers, retailers) to use digital payments instead of cash transactions.
The rules of the scheme allow only a set of transactions for lucky draws and...
Due to demonitisation and resulting cash crunch, there is a very big demand of digital money transfer. But most of the digital money transfer systems require access to smartphones and internet, which is not always available. Especially, the poor people can't afford the smartphone or Internet.
USSD based payments provide a solution and allow people having feature phones to do digital money ...
To promote cashless payments, Indian government has launched a reward scheme for consumers called 'Lucky Grahak Yojana'. Under this scheme, every consumer making a payment using approved digital payment systems will be added to a lucky draw and people will get cash rewards.
India is still seeing a lot of problems in day to day cash transactions due to limited availability of cash. Government is now looking aggressively towards digital or cashless payments to alleviate this problem. To promote digital payments, Indian Government has launched multiple schemes and rewards on Dec 15th.
Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojana is to promote digital payments among shopkeepers, merchants...