Lok Sabha Question No. 5171 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-04-05
Subject: DIGIDHAN Mela
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: SANTOSH AHLAWAT

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION NO. 5171

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 05.04.2017

## DIGIDHAN MELA

## 5171.       SHRIMATI SANTOSH AHLAWAT:

Will the Minister of ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

- (a) whether recently the Government decided to organize 'DIGIDHAN Mela' all over the country  to  educate  people  and  promote  e-payments  at  the  grass-root  level  of  the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise;
- (c) whether all districts will also be covered under the above said programme;
- (d) if so, the number of districts covered till now including in Rajasthan, State-wise; and
- (e) whether any Ministry has any provision to help Member of Parliament who wants to organize such Melas and if so, the details thereof ?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI P. P. CHAUDHARY)

(a) to  (e):  Yes,  Madam.  As  part  of  the  Government  initiative  in  popularizing  Digital Payments, DigiDhan Melas are being organized in 100 cities in different parts of the country under DigiDhan Abhiyan. Government of India in collaboration with the State governments and  district  collectors  has  been  organising  DigiDhan  Melas  starting  from  25 th December, 2016 which will end on  14 th April, 2017.

In  addition,  NITI  Aayog  has  launched  two  schemes  namely  'Lucky  Grahak  Yojana'  for consumers  and  'Digi-Dhan  Vyapar  Yojana'  for  merchants  on  25 th December,  2016  at  the DigiDhan Mela organized at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. These schemes provide daily and weekly awards to citizens and merchants for undertaking digital transactions made through Cards/Point  of  Sales(PoS),  Aadhaar  Enabled  Payment  System(AEPS),  Unified  Payment Interface (UPI) Apps, and Unstructured Supplementary Service Data(USSD) etc.

As on 31 st March, 2017 the DigiDhan Melas have been held in 90 cities across the country in 33 States/UTs. State-wise number of cities covered till now including Rajasthan is as follows:

|   Sl. No | States/UTs               |   Number of cities in which Mela has been organized |
|----------|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andaman &Nicobar Islands |                                                   1 |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh           |                                                   3 |
|        3 | Arunachal Pradesh        |                                                   1 |
|        4 | Assam                    |                                                   2 |

| 5   | Bihar               |   4 |
|-----|---------------------|-----|
| 6   | Chandigarh          |   1 |
| 7   | Chhattisgarh        |   4 |
| 8   | Dadra &Nagar Haveli |   1 |
| 9   | Daman &Diu          |   1 |
| 10  | Delhi               |   2 |
| 11  | Goa                 |   1 |
| 12  | Gujarat             |   6 |
| 13  | Haryana             |   5 |
| 14  | Himachal Pradesh    |   2 |
| 15  | Jammu &Kashmir      |   3 |
| 16  | Jharkhand           |   4 |
| 17  | Karnataka           |   4 |
| 18  | Kerala              |   3 |
| 19  | Lakshwadeep         |   1 |
| 20  | Madhya Pradesh      |   5 |
| 21  | Maharashtra         |   5 |
| 22  | Meghalaya           |   1 |
| 23  | Mizoram             |   1 |
| 24  | Odisha              |   3 |
| 25  | Puducherry          |   1 |
| 26  | Punjab              |   4 |
| 27  | Rajasthan           |   7 |
| 28  | Tamil Nadu          |   2 |
| 29  | Telangana           |   4 |
| 30  | Tripura             |   1 |
| 31  | Uttar Pradesh       |   4 |
| 32  | Uttarakhand         |   2 |
| 33  | West Bengal         |   1 |
|     | Total               |  90 |

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