{"id":63469,"date":"2021-12-18T08:04:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T08:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=63469"},"modified":"2022-09-14T14:01:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T08:31:18","slug":"whatsapp-announces-digital-payments-utsav-for-500-villages-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/whatsapp-announces-digital-payments-utsav-for-500-villages-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp announces Digital Payments Utsav for 500 villages in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Meta-owned WhatsApp<\/strong>&nbsp;has announced the&nbsp;<strong>Digital Payments Utsav<\/strong>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<strong>500 villages in India.<\/strong>&nbsp;WhatsApp\u2019s Digital Payments Utsav is a pilot program that promotes digital payments to empower individuals and businesses and is meant as a project to further the cause of financial inclusion. The aim is to empower people with access to digital payments through &#8216;payments on WhatsApp&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>At the Fuel For India 2021 event:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>WhatsApp announced the Digital Payments Utsav \u2013 a pilot program that is going to adopt 500 villages in Karnataka and Maharashtra in an effort to \u201caccelerate financial inclusion\u201d.<\/li><li>The pilot called &#8216;Digital Payments Utsav&#8217;, began on October 15 in Kyathanahalli village in Mandya district of Karnataka, where villagers were familiarised with various aspects of digital payments including signing up for UPI, setting up a UPI account and safety best practices of using digital payments.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-owned WhatsApp&nbsp;has announced the&nbsp;Digital Payments Utsav&nbsp;for&nbsp;500 villages in India.&nbsp;WhatsApp\u2019s Digital Payments Utsav is a pilot program that promotes digital payments to empower individuals and businesses and is meant as a project to further the cause of financial inclusion. The aim is to empower people with access to digital payments through &#8216;payments on WhatsApp&#8217;. 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