The Gurgaon-based firm is so bullish that in the coming 10 months, it has plans to hire 1,000 more for spreading tentacles to 13 new cities in India. The government has already launched BHIM that uses biometric for receiving Aadhaar-enabled payments bypassing debit cards, pin and password. The company says West Bengal has been a key growth market and currently it has over 1 lakh merchants from the area on its network. "West Bengal has been a key growth market of our business, and currently, we have over 1 lakh merchants from the area on our network. "We aim to increase the number of our users to 150 million by 2017.

Source: Times of India March 03, 2017 00:16 UTC