-The Indian Express India’s largest public sector bank, the State Bank of India, has also seen a jump in PoS transactions from 3.5 lakh to 11 lakh a day with more people using debit cards. Mumbai: One month into demonetisation, there has been a significant increase in digital payments. According to AP Hota, managing director and chief executive of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), transactions through RuPay point of sale (PoS) machines have...
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Income tax department to use analytics to look for discrepancies in bank accounts -Sachin Dave
-The Economic Times MUMBAI: For the first time, the income-tax department will use big data analytical tools to go through personal bank deposits to segregate black money holders from genuine tax-payers, two people in the know have said. While the government has used big data analytical tools for corporate tax reporting in some cases in the past, this is the first time that it will use analytics on such a large scale...
More »MGNREGA spending high, call for Rs 10,000 crore extra -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express As part of the first supplementary grant of demands, the ministry had released an additional Rs 5,000 crore — a third of the Rs 15,000 crore the MoRD had demanded to meet increased expenditure in drought-affected states. The Ministry of Rural Development has sought Rs 10,000 crore for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) as part of the second batch of supplementary demand of grants, set...
More »Proposal to amend law for cashless wage payments
-The Hindu The Centre has proposed amending a law to empower States and allow industries to pay wages by cheque or by direct credit into bank accounts. The Union Labour ministry has proposed changes to the Section 6 of the Payment of Wages Act of 1936. The present law states that all payment of wages should be made in cash, with a provision enabling employers to obtain written permission of the...
More »10-rupee bait for cashless campaign -Ananya Sengupta
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Each citizen who performs at least two cashless transactions with the government will earn their district administration an extra Rs 10 from the Niti Aayog, to be spent on promoting e-payments across the population. This incentive comes over and above a sum of Rs 5 lakh that every district will receive for the campaign, launched today to try and make all government-citizen transactions cashless. As part of the drive,...
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