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Digital Payment Index lanuched By RBI

Digital payment index


Reserve Bank of India recently released Digital Payments Index to measure growth in cashless transactions in India recently


About the index:

Reserve Bank of India has set the base year 2018 of digital payment index.

In its determination, 5 parameters like payment performance, Payment Enablers, payment infrastructure are considered as the basis. Payment performance is assigned the highest weight (45%). 

The Digital Payments Index for the year 2019 was 153.47 and for 2020 was 207.84.

From March 2021, the Reserve Bank of India will publish the digital payment index on a half-yearly basis.

Other facts:

Digital transactions have seen a boom in India in the recent past December 223 crores of digital transactions were done.

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