UGC issues directives to educational institutions to promote digital economy

The Union Grant Commission (UGC) in privy with the administration’s aspiration to make India Digital economy has encouraged all colleges and schools to receive cashless exchange and spread mindfulness about the equivalent.

HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar, lately, gave a course to instructive organizations to receive and advance cashless exchanges and lead of business.

In a meeting led by the Union Minister, he encouraged the authorities and heads of sheets and boards to audit steps to advance cashless transaction.

Directives to promote digital economy:

The UGC, in a letter to educational institutes and universities across the country, advised a month-long campaign starting from December 12, 2016 to educate and train students the various procedures and methods of digital payment

“Participation in the campaign by the youth in the higher educational institutions is highly relevant because they would be the main beneficiaries of a digital economy – free of corruption, black money, completely transparent and just,” said the letter

“It is therefore essential that the heads of all institutions educate and train their students in the various modes of digital payments and encourage them to join as volunteers in large numbers for this campaign,” it added

“The NSS and NCC units in your institution may be asked to meet immediately and identify one nearby market or mandi to transform it into a digital market place, where all shops, establishments etc are enabled with digital payment system,” the letter said, as reported in The Indian Express

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