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UPI EFFECT: AVERAGE
ATM VISITS HALVE TO
8 TIMES A YEAR
uPay and UPI are not only affordable and highly
Rsecure but also becoming a new identity of
India in the world. Recently, Japan has expressed
interest in joining India's UPI payment system after
the UPI-Penou linkage started between India and visiting ATMs whose number was 16 earlier. This
Singapore. The interest in digital payments has observation of SBI is based on monthly data
increased in India due to the ease of UPI, initiated analysis for the period from April 2016 to April
by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Now 40% of the 2023. 73% of digital payments in the country are
world's real-time digital payments are happening in being done through UPI only. Where there were
India only. SBI's recently released research report 1.8 crore transactions in the year 2017, which has
"Ecowrap" states that every Re 1 increase in the increased to 8,375 crore in 2022-23. In the same
value of UPI transactions leads to a decline of 18 period, transactions of Rs 139 lakh crore were done
paise in debit card transactions, indicating that through UPI, which was only Rs 6,974 crore in the
a person now transacts on an average 8 times year 2017.
CGHS BENEFICIARIES WILL BE ABLE TO GET CASHLESS TREATMENT IN AIIMS
he Government of India Education and Research in
Tis continuously making Puducherry will also have the
health facilities accessible. facility of cashless treatment.
While Ayushman Bharat With this decision of the
Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Central Government, apart
Yojana is being run for more from serving, retired employees
than 50 crore people, crores and their dependent families,
of rupees have been saved by Members of Parliament, Ex-
patients through buying cheap Members of Parliament, and
medicines at Pradhan Mantri other categories of CGHS
Jan Aushadhi Kendras. Now beneficiaries will also get the
cashless treatment facility has been started at facility of treatment in OPD and IPD. Till now,
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) CGHS beneficiaries had to make payments after
for the treatment of crores of beneficiaries of the getting treatment at these places and then claim
Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS). It the expenses. Hospitals will be paid by CGHS
can be availed by CGHS beneficiaries in Bhopal, within 30 days. These six AIIMS have a super
Bhubaneshwar, Patna, Jodhpur, Raipur, and specialty, trauma, and emergency facilities
Rishikesh AIIMS. Very soon apart from Delhi including cardiology, neurology, neurosurgery,
AIIMS, the Post Graduate Institute of Medical gastroenterology, urology, cardiovascular thoracic
Education and Research in Chandigarh and the surgery, oncology, and many more. Presently
Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical CGHS is functioning in 79 cities in the country.
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