To weed out black money and corruption from public life, GoI has constituted a committee of officers to ensure 100 percent conversion of Gov-Citizen transactions to the digital platform.
Committee is headed by NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant and will identify and operationalise the time frame for user friendly digital options for payment across India.
Aim of the committee is to identify numerous digital payment systems appropriate to different sectors of the economy. It will also coordinate these to make them accessible and user friendly.
The committee will also identify digital payment system economies across all states and sectors.
It will be engaging regularly with Central ministries, regulators, state governments, district administration, local bodies and trade and industry associations
Members of the Committee of Officers for driving a digital payments economy in India include: - - Secretary, Department of Financial Services,
- Ministry of Finance;
- Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology;
- Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion;
- Secretary, Department of Investment and public Asset Management;
- MD & CEO, National Payments Corporation of India,
- Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development,
- Chairman, National Highways Authority of India,
- Adviser, NITI Aayog.
