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Modi's Digital India dream souring? Value of digital transactions recedes -Abhishek Waghmare

-IndiaSpend

This puts in peril the government's target to achieve 25 billion digital transactions in 2017-18

The value of digital transactions nationwide declined marginally (1.5%) to Rs 92.6 lakh crore ($1.4 trillion) in February 2017 from Rs 94 lakh crore in November 2016 ($1.42 trillion), according to representative data (provisional) on electronic payments released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

The data do not cover all transactions across all banks. But, card payments data for four major banks, mobile banking figures for five banks and prepaid payment instruments (PPI, meaning mobile payment gateways such as PayTM and FreeCharge) data for eight non-bank issuers have been considered as representative for analysing trends in payments.

 Digital transactions (volume) had increased 42% from 672 million in November 2016 to 958 million in December 2016 but has since declined 20% in two months to 763 million in February 2017.

This puts in peril the government’s target to achieve 25 billion digital transactions in 2017-18, which translates to at least 2 billion transactions per month. The February 2017 figure of 763 million transactions falls 60% short of the monthly requirement.

“The continuance of that high growth with a further pick up in some components (of digital payments) (sic) from November to January 2017 was a positive fallout of demonetisation. However, the pace of growth moderated somewhat in February 2017,” the RBI noted in its first assessment of demonetisation, Macroeconomic Impact of Demonetisation- A Preliminary Assessment.

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