ICICI Bank to transform 100 villages into ‘Digital Villages’ in 100 days
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Can you imagine turning one Indian village digital every day?
ICICI Bank, today announced that it will transform 100 villages into Digital Villages through a number of measures.
These villages will enable villagers to use digital channels for banking and payments transactions. There, villagers will be able to open
Additionally, ICICI Bank in association with
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The bank will create a cashless ecosystem at these villages, provide vocational training to 10,000 villagers in first 100 days and offer them credit linkages so that the villagers can start their own business ventures.
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ICICI Bank will use tablet-based banking and Aadhar-based e-KYC to help villagers open accounts in few hours without submitting physical documents. All adults in the villages will have saving accounts, which will be linked to
The bank will provide a unique SMS & USSD based mobile service which will facilitate the villagers to transfer funds, receive alerts & statements and make payments to retail stores by using their mobile phones. This SMS banking will be available in regional languages and will function on basic mobile phones. The Bank will also set up end-to-end merchant infrastructure that will enable the retailers at the village to accept mobile based payments.
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The bank will also create a cashless, digital payment ecosystem for the predominant commercial activity of these villages and set up Point-of-Sale (POS) machines at seed and fertilizer outlets for cashless transactions using Rupay cards.
All this is being done in the wake of
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