Key highlights of the strategy:
- Strengthen the ecosystem for various modes of digital financial services in all Tier-II to Tier VI centres to move towards a less-cash society by March 2022.
- Increase outreach of banking outlets to provide banking access to every village within a 5-km radius or a hamlet of 500 households in hilly areas by March 2020.
- Aim was also to see that every adult had access to a financial service provider through a mobile device by March 2024.
- Every willing and eligible adult, who has been enrolled under the Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yogana, to be enrolled under an insurance scheme and a pension scheme by March 2020.
- Make the Public Credit Registry (PCR) fully operational by March 2022 so that authorised financial entities could leverage the same for assessing credit proposals from all citizens.
