Telegraph picture Bhubaneswar, Jan. 17: The civic body will conduct awareness campaigns to promote e-payments of taxes among and provide 1 per cent cash-back option to taxpayers on each transaction. Accordingly, the civic body has decided to hold awareness camps, account opening drives, demonstration of e-payment options for shopkeepers through their market organisation. The civic body has the facility of online payment for holding tax for three of its 67 wards. "Since the central government is promoting cashless transactions for different kinds of payments, it is our job to implement the same at the ground level," said a civic body official. Such people are high in number who should have been provided demo on making the digital payments.

Source: The Telegraph January 17, 2017 21:41 UTC