Oil Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan today launched a Customer Awareness Campaign focused at spreading digital awareness and facilitating the common man to use Cashless payment options during day to day transactions.

Speaking on the occasion, Pradhan said that transition will be towards less cash and then towards cashless. He noted that an MoU has been entered with Common Service Centers (CSCs) of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, who will be deploying trainers at Oil Marketing Companies’ Retail Outlets across the country to train the general public on use of various Digital/Cashless payment modes and to promote them.

According to a press release by the oil ministry, tie-ups have been done with Public sector banks, Paytm, Mobikwik, Oxygen, Citrus, Olamoney, Ideamoney, Jiomoney, Airtel money, Vodafone MPS, Freecharge and others. It noted that in one month, all retail outlets (ROs) in Delhi will be covered under the customer awareness cum training programmes, and subsequently it will spread to all the ROs across the country.

Pradhan claimed that all Retail outlets, numbering over 53,000, in the country will be covered in the campaign in the first phase. The next phase will be expanded to cover Gas distributors, LPG stations, bottling plants and other establishments. The oil ministry stated that 3413 retail outlets have been dispensing cash and they have dispensed Rs 63.55 crore so far through PoS machines against swiping of debit cards.

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