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Awareness of BHIM App Is Less Than 40 Percent in Rural India: Survey

Awareness of BHIM App Is Less Than 40 Percent in Rural India: Survey 16a3j

By Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: 19 April 2017 16:03 IST

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As the government aims big to promote and make digital transactions easier with BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) app, a new survey on Tuesday claimed that only 35.7 percent people in rural India are aware of BHIM that has over 10 million base in the country. b3g1z

Launched in December last year, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).

According to Brickworks Media, a sister concern of research and data analytics company Chrome DM, "only 16.2 percent of the respondents have ed the app which reflects the low base in rural India and nine percent of the respondents who have BHIM app are completely aware of usage process".

The survey involved 5,478 rural respondents from across the country.

"Only 9.2 percent of the rural respondents have used BHIM app for any purpose till date and approximately 15 percent of the rural respondents have found easy using the BHIM app," the findings showed.

Approximately 20 percent of the respondents feel that BHIM app is a safe and secured way for money transactions.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said last week that the BHIM-Aadhaar digital payments platform has the potential to revolutionise the Indian economy.

BHIM-Aadhaar will be like a smartphone with a biometric reader and boost digital payments in a manner unprecedented anywhere in the world.

"With over 10 million base, it is clear that major dominance for usage of BHIM app comes from urban India. Therefore, the government needs to work more on branding and awareness in rural India to increase its penetration," the survey stressed.

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