Sunday 25 December 2016

INDIA’S FIRST CASHLESS VILLAGE HAS CHILDREN DRIVING THE CHANGE

Swapnil Patkar of Dhasai Vyapari Sangha at his shop.

This is a tremendous jump in the certainty of these kids who have known scarcely a word about budgetary proficiency," Lakshman Anna Golhe tells this journalist joyfully, not able to shroud his ear-to-ear grin. A significant number of his understudies have a place with the tribal and low pay aggregate families.

The youngsters, matured somewhere around 12 and 17 years, would spend Rs 5 each from his record to get themselves treats. Clustering at a neighborhood tea shop or a general store, they would purchase rolls or pencil or vada-paav or chocolates or natural products, swiping their instructor's card at these little slows down, effortlessly. Without a penny in their pockets, they would swipe the card, enter the "mystery" PIN code independent from anyone else, and afterward convey the receipt of their exchange without come up short. They have effectively done this once with the "Blessing Cards" issued to them by the Bank of Baroda. They would then backpedal home and converse with their folks about the significance of cashless exchanges and the simplicity of it.

Money related LITERACY

"Dhasai and the encompassing towns and tribal settlements have a low rate of education. In the event that we went to converse with them about the significance of budgetary education, they may simply dispose of us. That is not the situation when their own kids converse with them. They at any rate give them a patient hearing. The purpose for reserving in kids is that they ought to roll out this improvement manageable. It is anything but difficult to go cashless. It is more hard to maintain it. That is the place the more youthful era will help in conveying this mantle ahead," said Supriya Patkar, a Commerce educator at Janata Vidyalay, Dhasai.

Dhasai is India's first cashless town. Tucked inside the mountain scopes of the Sahyadris, close Malshej Ghat, it is bringing about waves at the national level for driving the way. Dhasai is arranged in Thane's Murbad locale, more than 120 km far from Mumbai. It is difficult coming to there by open transport. The closest available prepare station is Kalyan, which is more than 60 km away. One needs to then take a State transport to achieve Tokawade town, from where a little sidestep drives one further inside to the town. Despite the fact that Dhasai itself has a populace of scarcely 10,000 individuals, close ly 80,000 individuals from the encompassing 27 aggregate gram panchayats are subject to the main commercial center that it offers. "Cashless India starts from Dhasai town, Maharashtra!" tweeted Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, a couple days back. "Maharashtra's initial move towards getting to be distinctly cashless economy. Dhasai town (Thane) goes cashless as requested by Hon Narendra Modiji," tweeted Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. He likewise spoke to different towns to stick to this same pattern and stroll on the way of money related freedom.

A late universal report, "Worldwide Microscope 2016: The empowering environment for money related consideration" has pegged India at the third position among 55 nations, for monetary incorporation. India has demonstrated consistency in each of the 12 markers, incorporating exchanges in e-empowered records. India's means towards money related consideration incorporate opening 221 million Jan Dhan accounts and giving access to credit, protection, benefits and other budgetary offices to its undiscovered populace. Taking Dhasai on this way was started by Ranjit Savarkar, an unmistakable social figure from Murbad who has begun the Maharashtra Military School there. He is additionally the amazing nephew of prestigious flexibility warrior Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

One nationalized bank and one region bank serve the number of inhabitants in around 90,000 individuals including Dhasai's 10,000, and 80,000 from encompassing towns. Bank of Baroda now wants to begin a computerized branch there, villagers told The Sunday Guardian. The bank has as of now banded together with Ranjit Savarkar to issue POS machines and make ready for cashless exchanges in the town. It has begun opening current records of dealers and has deferred off all charges towards security and establishment of POS terminals. The bank has likewise deferred off responsibility charges. Along these lines, while a broker needing a swipe machine would conventionally need to pay around Rs 11,000, the dealers in Dhasai got their machines for nothing.

It has been very much celebrated as of not long ago that even little tapris (tea slows down/booths) in Dhasai are outfitted to execute with cards. From a hair parlor's to a tea-dealer to a manure merchant, there is not a solitary class of shop that does not have a swipe machine or POS terminal. Of the 100 shops at Dhasai advertise, 62 have officially connected for a POS terminal. In any case, what is scarcely known is that the offspring of Dhasai's school are outfitted with the certainty to handle the card appropriately. Not only that, they additionally know the method to open a record, report the loss of card, piece a card if there should arise an occurrence of robbery or misfortune. A novel social trial of instructing school kids in budgetary matters has seen one of its underlying examples of overcoming adversity. The bigger strategy which is unfurling is that of money related incorporation through computerized advances—from bringing the little shop proprietors under institutional managing an account umbrella to developing the net of Jan Dhan accounts by opening fundamental sparing records of the adivasis and low pay bunch families.

Anxious TO LEARN

Twelve kilometers from Dhasai, in another remote tribal territory of Khopiwali, 17-year-old Sandhya Bhande has demanded to her anganwadi sevika mother that she ought to get an ATM-cum-plastic. At a place which is small to the point that locations are characterized by closeness to structures like a media transmission tower, monetary education isn't a need for some. Yet, Sandhya has effectively made a trip 12 km to an area bank, to get a shape for her mom. 40-year-old Sunanda Bhande holds an investment funds financial balance, yet has never utilized a platinum card. "I visit the bank once in a while. Be that as it may, I needed to give in light of the fact that Sandhya continued demanding," she tells this journalist. "The shape has been filled. She will submit it now, at whatever point she can save an ideal opportunity to go to the bank," says Sandhya.

Sandhya has as of late been a part of the money related proficiency preparing program held for around 800 understudies of her school, Janata Vidyalay. After classroom preparing on cashless economy and its significance, these understudies were given Gift Cards issued by Bank of Baroda, and were instructed how to lead exchanges utilizing these cards. They were told to purchase anything worth not more than Rs 5 each. The curiosity of the analysis, the chance to handle a card autonomously and the preparation about the need to go cashless had such an effect on these kids that they have now turned into the operators of progress. "Utilizing cards as a part of our everyday lives likewise brings control over superfluous consumption," 17-year-old Karishma Attar tells this reporter. Her cohort, Kunal Dhalpe says the retailers can no longer pocket little sums. "On the off chance that we purchased things worth Rs 198 or Rs 99, the businesspeople would not give us back Re 1 or Rs 2. They would state they didn't have change. Be that as it may, now, there is no doubt of losing your valuable cash," he says. 15-year old Krupali Gholap gives a well ordered depiction of the method of hindering a card if there should arise an occurrence of robbery or misfortune. 18-year-old Vishwas Mengal says he has as of now advised her homemaker mother to begin utilizing a card for day by day shopping needs. Vishwas remains at a tribal settlement a couple of kilometers far from Dhasai.

Today, Rajaram Bhanushali and Bhavesh Bhanushali, both merchants at Dhasai and Sonavale, are as of now sitting tight for a bank to introduce POS terminals. The day Bhavesh Bhanushali's 14-year-old little girl Girija experienced the budgetary proficiency preparing in her school and took care of the Gift Card, she returned home all energized. She demanded and disclosed to her dad and granddad the requirement for getting a POS machine introduced at their shops. "The effect on them two was tremendous to the point, that they promptly moved toward the bank, making an application for a swiping machine," tells glad grandma Nirmala Bhanushali. "Going cashless is so valuable for us merchants. There won't be an idea of udhari (loaning) starting now and into the foreseeable future. We won't need to arduously keep up long registers for it. On the off chance that somebody requests that we loan them things since they don't have money to pay for them, we can just approach them for their check cards," she says. Girija has conversed with them about the significance of cashless exchanges.

Girija's mom Alaknanda, holds a check card, however has scarcely ever utilized it. "Presently she continues letting me know that I ought to utilize it to purchase things. I am considering utilizing it for different purposes including shopping. Who needs to go for broke of conveying money?" she inquired.

The ladies said that consideration in the keeping money framework will likewise help them later on when they need to begin their own independent company. "A few of us ladies can meet up and start some independent venture. The bank will then help us with credit," Nirmala Bhanushali said.

43-year-old Neha Patil has been running Swara magnificence parlor in Dhasai for 10 years now. After her 16-yearold girl Vaishnavi demanded, she has now connected for a POS terminal for her parlor.

At the point when this journalist went out for a stroll around Dhasai, she found just a single ATM corner. It was stacked. Be that as it may, shockingly, there were no lines outside the corner. This journalist could without much of a stretch pull back trade from that point out no time.

VISION FOR FINANCIAL INCLUSION

"When we give the youngsters Gift Cards, it removes away dread from their brains. We are additionally holding versatile managing an account workshops for individuals here. When we open sparing ledgers here, and issue RuPay check cards, we bring these individuals under the government disability net. They get to be distinctly qualified for Rs One Lakh extra security. They get into the propensity for sparing. They learn vital lessons in budgetary education. These are all method for money related incorporation," said Vijay Singh, a Chief Manager at the Bank of Baroda.

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