New Delhi: A high level panel set up under Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu has suggested a slew of measures to encourage digital payments in the country.

The panel will submit its interim report to the centre in the next 2-3 days.

The suggested measures include a push for interoperability among banks in terms of unified payments interface (UPI) as well as linking it to QR (Quick Response) code and unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) based transactions.

‘The committee is exploring the possibility of the use of technology to simplify the digital payment procedures for people and for this we are having consultations with all banks, governments, engineers, technologists and service providers," Naidu said.

“Also, a new version of USSD linked to UPI will be coming in next 10-15 days and we have requested all banks to speed up the deployment of Micro-ATM’s," said Amitabh Kant, CEO of Niti Aayog.

The IT ministry had earlier launched the initiative of common service centres in order to make people aware of different payment options.

Besides this, there will be a launch on Saturday of a drive to give hands-on training to people in this regard. Help desks will also be created.

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