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Finance Minister pushes for greater use of plastic currency

03 Jun 2015 Evaluate

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley while pushing for currency notes to be made in India from scratch, has made a case for greater use of plastic currency. He stated that 'The developed world has moved substantially to plastic currency and payment gateways. I think there is need for India and our determination is there to gradually take steps to move in that direction.'

To popularize the use of plastic money, the government had launched the RuPay debit card in 2012 through the National Payments Corp of India (NPCI). The card enables electronic payments at all banks and financial institutions, competing with international card providers like MasterCard, Visa and American Express.

Jaitley further stated that 'It's about time that we start at least printing our own currency with our own ink and paper. It is not merely symbolism. It also represents a thought process where there is a desire to bring back Indian manufacturing at a particular level.' Finance minister while inaugurating a paper-making line for bank notes at Hoshangabad and dispatching a consignment for printing Rs 1,000-denominated currency notes to the state-run security press at Nashik in Maharashtra, stressed that development of new facilities at Hoshangabad and Mysore would help in reducing reliance on imports for printing of currency notes.

Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha too advocated the cause and said there are 30 billion bank notes that are printed in India today and with the indigenous currency paper we should also aim to meet the global needs. He added that since India is moving quickly towards a cashless economy, the RBI will be soon issuing licences on Payments Bank. He said a cashless economy can facilitate volumes of transactions through a variety of institutions -- telecom operators or postal service-- and do transactions at a tremendously low cost.

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