(Source: File) (Source: File)Making a push to promote digital payment post demonetisation, petrol pumps across the country have installed infrastructure to accept not just credit and debit cards but e-wallets and mobile wallets as an alternative to cash. “Beginning today, we are launching a month-long awareness drive at 53,077 petrol pumps in the first phase to promote use of digital payment services,” Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said while launching the drive. Petrol pumps will host kioks to help not just people buy fuel, but others on how to use e-payment solutions. “Petrol pumps transact Rs 2,000 crore a day of fuel and even if a small percentage of this can go in digital mode, it will be a huge thing,” he said. In the national capital region, 539 out of 570 petrol pumps have POS machines and 303 are e-wallet compliant.

Source: Indian Express December 03, 2016 11:57 UTC