The BHIM-Aadhaar Pay mobile application launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will boost “transparency and honesty” in payment of income tax in the country, Union Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in Nagpur today.
According to PTI, Prasad said that the essence and the idea behind the Prime Minister’s ‘Digital India’ initiative is that if we send Rs 100 from Delhi, then it must fully reach to the poor beneficiary. That is the reason some 2800 million bank accounts have been opened for the poor in the last two years.
He was addressing a programme to mark the culmination of “Digi Dhan Mela” organised by the NITI Aayog at the divisional sports stadium located in Mankapur area. Apart from Modi, Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Hansraj Ahir, Ramdas Athawle, and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis were present on the dais.
Modi today paid tribute to B R Ambedkar at Deekshabhoomi here, where the Dalit icon had embraced Buddhism, to mark his 126th birth anniversary. He launched BHIM-Aadhaar mobile application, a biometric-based payment system which will make payment through thumb impression a reality.
Prasad said that as many as 113 crore Aadhaar cards, 108 crore mobile phones, 50 crore internet users, 35 crore smart phones have been connected under ‘Digital India’. He said that 72 mobile manufacturing companies have entered India since Modi government assumed power.
