Students play a very important part to upgrade Digital India

UDUPI: Union minister for human resource development, Prakash Javadekar addressed the students at Manipal University on Sunday and said, "India is facing a historic
transformation from cash to a cashless society and students are the best volunteers of it. They are a part of this historic movement. Hence, they have to decide whether they want to be an active part of it or not. To help them, the government has launched Vittiya Saksharta Abhiyan (VISAKA), a digital financial literacy campaign.

From the last 20 days, 2.3 lakh students have registered as volunteers for the campaign. The mission of the campaign is to support and guide digitalized India. He urged the students to use digital form of transactions and also guide their family members and neighbours to use digital modes.

One person should let 10 families know the benefit of digitalization. The students, who do so (video testimonies of 10 families to be uploaded on the MHRD website) will be recognized with letter of appreciation, awarded with certificates. There are so lucky draws and mega bumper draw.

"Before Independence, Mahatma Gandhi gave a call to students to become the agent for change. Lots of them became soldiers of Independent India. Youth was responsible to achieve swaraj. In 1975, democracy was clamped and there was an emergency rule. To restore democracy, students had to fight and they won the battle of democracy. Therefore, a lot will depend on the students to bring about the change from a cash-based society to a cashless society," he said.

All should understand that money is not cash, it is just a medium of exchange. We started from Barter system to coins, notes, plastic (debit and credit) to digital. Now, you have an option to exchange money with a tap of your finger.

Old generation people may have problems to adopt the changes because of their mind-set, however, youth of the country can adapt to the changes fast. Developed and developing countries, have 3 to 4 % of their GDP in currency components and we have 12 % of it. It is the high time India turns digital.

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