TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi-Around 9,500 persons attended a two-day awareness camp here to create awareness about digital payments and help people open bank accounts and enroll for Aadhaar, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said today. Digital transactions worth Rs 60,000 were conducted at the event that concluded today, it said. “DigiDhan Mela witnessed footfall of over 9500 visitors in two days,” a release by the ministry said.
The camp commenced on December 17 culminated today at Major Dhyanchand National Stadium, Delhi. The objective of the initiative was to enable citizens and merchants to undertake real-time digital transactions through the DigiDhan Bazaar and encourage them to use digital platforms for day-to-day transactions, the statement said.
“As many as 72 participants from 29 banks including State Bank of India, Corporation Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, Andhra Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Punjab National Bank, ICICI Bank were present,” the statement said. Eighteen mobile wallet operators like MobiKwik, Oxygen, TranServ; telecom companies like Airtel, Idea, Reliance Jio participated in the event.
