CMs, bankers meet RBI guv to discuss cashless road map

December 09, 2016 13:39

A committee of chief ministers, bankers and technocrats, headed by Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu, met Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel and other deputy governors on Thursday to discuss how to implement the digital push at the state level and also the impact of demonetisation, reports Anup Roy in Business Standard.

The attendees discussed the road map towards complete digital transformation but more specifically how the push could be implemented at the state level.

'The committee discussed "using the current infrastructure (Aadhaar-enabled instruments, unified payment interface, point of sales machines, mobile phones etc) and how do we accelerate that,' Axis Bank Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Shikha Sharma told reporters after the meeting,' Roy reports, and that there was no time period fixed for the road map, but Sharma said the committee would look to implement it "as fast as we can'.

You can read the full report here.

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