Vijayawada: At the two-day collectors’ conference that began on Wednesday, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has asked the collectors to share their personal experiences of digital literacy, in the second day's meeting. The district collectors were given new tasks, apart from the scheduled goals. The CM will give them new directions regarding development parameters and also on the law order issues, on the second day.
Mr Naidu launched cashless transactions using smart phone and biometric device at a small shop at Enikepadu village near here and explained the system to MLAs, asking the district collectors to go for shopping after the session and conduct two digital transactions in real time using their mobile phone seeded with Aadhaar number and report their experience in the second and concluding session on Thursday.
Several shops on Bandar Road were earmarked for cashless transactions. The Chief Minister said farmers were facing problem during the present rabi season due to non-availability of small currency to carry out agricultural operations. When the Chief Minister asked the officials to explain about the alternative and innovative systems to carry out cashless transactions as there was shortage e-PoS machines, Krishna district collector Babu A. demonstrated a mobile banking system using a biometric device.
He said people can carry out their shopping easily when the shop keepers use the biometric device to take fingerprints and Aadhar number to carry out mobile banking transaction. Impressed over the innovative system, the Chief Minister announced Rs 1,000 subsidy on the biometric device and asked the commissioner of commercial taxes to encourage the traders to purchase the device immediately to end the currency crisis.
The Chief Minister said students of all colleges and officials should visit the villages on fourth Saturday of every month and encourage people to switch over to mobile banking transactions. He said AP should stand on top position in digital transactions. He said that e-Governance and e-Pragati introduced by him started giving results. Later, the Chief Minister felicitated several heads of departments for achieving national awards for adopting best practices to achieve double digit growth.
