Rajnivas to adopt a village to make it digital, says Kiran Bedi
Banks would also be involved in the village adoption scheme as they would make available credit and debit cards to people of the adopted village.
Puducherry: Puducherry Lt Governor Kiran Bedi, on Sunday said that Rajnivas and the Group Headquarters of NCC in Puducherry would soon adopt a village and make it a ‘digital and swachh hamlet’. Talking to newspersons after NCC Day celebrations, she said she would follow the appeal of the Prime Minister to the youth to achieve mobile banking and credit card banking in order to reach a cashless society.
“I have listened to earlier talks of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mann Ki Baat on AIR in which he was talking about achieving a cashless society and decided to apply the same here,” said Ms Bedi. She asked the people to extend their cooperation to Prime Minister in realising his concept of digital and cashless society.
The Lt Governor said the NCC Group headquarters will select the village, which could be a fisherman's hamlet or any village in the Union Territory and would ensure the village becomes clean, cashless and digital.
Banks would also be involved in the village adoption scheme as they would make available credit and debit cards to people of the adopted village. The proposal of adoption of village goes hand in hand with the scheme implemented to enable Members of Parliament to adopt villages in the constituencies which they represent, she said.