Tripura to adopt cashless payment system in public transactions 

The government of Tripura has decided to adopt for cashless payment in all public transactions, starting from 1 January 2017.
●    The government has already initiated the process of opening bank accounts including issuing RuPay cards to people who do not have any bank accounts.
●    According to the Chief Secretary of the state, Yashpal Singh, 80% people in Tripura already have at least one bank account. 
●    So, the state government took the initiative of opening bank accounts for those who don’t have such as the tea garden and brick kiln workers.
●    By New Year, the government plans to convert the state into a cashless economy by ensuring that all its state departments deal mostly in digital payments.
●    Apart from this, the government is also building digital infrastructure in the Agartala government medical college & hospital, Tripura medical college and hospital and Indira Gandhi Memorial hospital.