In the month of May, President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated RuPay,
which is India’s first national payment gateway. Created by National
Payments Corporation of India, RuPay has several advantages compared to
private payment gateways such as low processing fees, data security and
more.
While reporting this exciting news, to be very honest, we were quite skeptical regarding it’s adaptability and wide scale usage. Considering that it is a government owned and supported payment gateway, we assumed that it will take some time to spread and adapt.
But we were very wrong!
In a latest development, government is actively encouraging the usage of RuPay across everywhere, as they want it’s adoption to grow quickly. Such is the intensity of it’s promotion that for the first time in their 30 years of existence, global payment gateway biggies such as MasterCard and Visa are facing the heat.
As per reports coming in, Gurdial Singh Sandhu, secretary at the finance ministry’s department of financial services has asked all nationalized banks to issue debit cards which are RuPay enabled!
Normally, only one debit card is issued per account, but this time, bank officials have been categorically asked to tweak their rules, and issue one more RuPay enabled debit card which can use this new payment gateway.
Not only this, merchant establishments and traders have been specifically requested and encouraged to install sale terminals especially for RuPay enabled debit cards so that a wide scale adaption of India’s new payment gateway is made possible.
While reporting this exciting news, to be very honest, we were quite skeptical regarding it’s adaptability and wide scale usage. Considering that it is a government owned and supported payment gateway, we assumed that it will take some time to spread and adapt.
But we were very wrong!
In a latest development, government is actively encouraging the usage of RuPay across everywhere, as they want it’s adoption to grow quickly. Such is the intensity of it’s promotion that for the first time in their 30 years of existence, global payment gateway biggies such as MasterCard and Visa are facing the heat.
As per reports coming in, Gurdial Singh Sandhu, secretary at the finance ministry’s department of financial services has asked all nationalized banks to issue debit cards which are RuPay enabled!
Normally, only one debit card is issued per account, but this time, bank officials have been categorically asked to tweak their rules, and issue one more RuPay enabled debit card which can use this new payment gateway.
Not only this, merchant establishments and traders have been specifically requested and encouraged to install sale terminals especially for RuPay enabled debit cards so that a wide scale adaption of India’s new payment gateway is made possible.
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