Akodara village in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat recently has earned the title of becoming first digital village in India.
●    The village, which sustains a total population of 1200 people, uses various cashless systems for payments of goods and services. Akodara, which is located some 90 km from Ahmedabad, was adopted and developed by the ICICI Foundation as a digitised village with a rural branch of the bank.
●    In the village, most transactions between Rs. 10 and Rs. 5000 are done via SMS. The payment goes directly into the shopkeeper’s bank account as the buyer and seller are both connected through their accounts in the same bank.
●    The ICICI Bank has developed a dedicated and customised SMS banking platform and software for the village to enable users to do basic banking transactions in English and Gujarati.
●    The bank has also developed a micro-ATM-based solution to facilitate the local mandi commission agents to make payments to farmers for their produce.


 
 

Read In Hindi (हिंदी)