Showcasing Aadhar Enabled Payment System at the Best Place
The 73 k.m. road journey from Vadodara to Rajpipla has been fascinating by all means for a long time. The magnificent Vijay Palace with excellent support staff has always been visitor’s delight. Greenery all around with Posia village in midway to explore would be any trekker’s dream. Rajpipla has distinction of having proud Birsa Munda Tribal University. Now, the imposing monument, which is the world’s tallest statue which is called Statue of Liberty is built on an islet, Sadhu Bet, near the Sardar Sarovar Dam in Narmada, is drawing lakhs of visitors from all over the world and India.
It is the once in life time experience with ‘Valley of Flower’, memorial, museum and an audio-visual gallery, SOU site and the Sardar Sarovar Dam which are other added wonderful attractions for visitors. Daily thousands of visitors are savouring mystic experience of visiting the world’s tallest statue, which is twice the height of Statue of Liberty.
As we march into digital era which helps us lessen our hard ships, no botheration of carrying cash and provides convenience, it would be in the fitness of thing if a system is used for making digital payment for ticket fees for huge populations at the ticket counter and at the same time host our digital mast at top of the world. The objective of Aadhar enabled payment System (AEPS) is to empower a bank customer to use Aadhar to access his/her Aadhar – enabled bank account and perform basic banking transactions that are intra-bank or inter-bank in nature.
Aadhar enabled payment system has proved to be a great enabler and comfort and proved its worth in PDS ration shops, milk centers, photo copies shops and fruit sellers to name a few. For making payment for buying entry tickets at Statute of Unity Aadhar enable payment system is the best bet with interoperability being its trump card. If bank puts up Aadhar enabled payments system for charging for tickets the entry fee for adults is Rs 120 while for children – aged 3 to 15 – it is pegged at Rs 60, it would signal the great success of Aadhar enabled payment system across India and world.
This is the best place to showcase out robust technology of Aadhar enabled system. Thousands of visitors will get firsthand experience of Aadhar enabled payment system while buying tickets for entry. Bankers putting up Aadhar enabled payment system, guides and staff taking care of visitors could be given small training about the function of Aadhar enabled system. Besides, hand outs of how it works and how it is easy and useful to operate could also be displayed near counters so that visitors get first hand experience of advantages of Aadhar enabled system.
It will give wide coverage to Aadhar enabled system. Besides, all other shops and utility counters could also be encouraged to go for Aadhar enabled payment system to make payments using Aadhar Pay, small value cash deposit or withdraw cash using AePS (Aadhar enabled Payment Systems), bill payments recharges and even undertake remittance activities across different banks in the close vicinity of Statue of Unity.
Authored By:
N K Bakshi
Retired Vice President
Axis Bank
Vadodara