First Cashless temple town in Telangana

Hyderabad, December 28: The 'DIGIthon' project ,which is launched by Telangana Information Technology Association (TITA) flagship has achieved another milestone of making the temple town Yadadri as the 'First Cashless temple town' in 'Telangana State' by enabling 815 retailers near the temple for cashless transactions.

"This unique initiative of making the entire temple town cashless is first adopted by TITA with the support of Aler MLA and Government Whip Gongidi Sunita, under the banner of 'Digithon Cashless Yadadri'. The aim of this mission is to impart Digital Financial Literacy to the merchants in Yadadri with the help of 100 Digithon Digital Leaders.

Travelling in Cashless Auto Rikshaw, Gongidi Sunita said, "Lack of awareness of digital financial literacy, especially among vendors in rural areas, is a major challenge in the country, more so in light of the Centre?s recent demonetization and plans to make India a cashless economy. There is an urgent need to create awareness among the citizens, especially in rural and semi-urban areas regarding digital finance services and also enable/support access to digital finance services options.

Now, Devotees can feel ease to pay the money using the cashless transaction for travelling in Auto, purchasing coconuts, prasadam and so on in Yadadri.

Yadadri Collector Anita Ramachandran purchased coconuts using cashless transaction through SBI Buddy, said, it was happy to participate in historic event and appreciated TITA for taking the unique initiative".

The event was attended by Sunitha, Collector Anita Ramchandran, TITA Global President Sundeep Kumar Makthala, Yadadri District Joint Collector Ravi Naik, TITA vice-president Ranapratap Bojjam and others.