A small village in Thane’s district, Murbad Taluka is set to become the country’s first cashless one.
For Dhasai village, bypassing cash transactions is a result of efforts by NGO Swatantryaveer Savarkar Rashtriya Smarak in collaboration with the Bank of Baroda. The NGO approached the bank with the request to provide infrastructure.
NGO’s chairman Ranjit Sarvakar is also Director at Maharashtra Military School in Murbad.
After the former approached the bank with a request to provide infrastructure, Dhasai was selected as the population is less than 10,000.
There are 3-4 such villages in every taluka in Thane which can go cashless.
RuPay cards and cashless transactions were explained to the villagers who then became part of the digital economy revolution.
