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are not concluded with money in the form of physical banknotes or coins, but
rather through the transfer of digital information through the transactions
parties. Cashless societies have existed based on barter system and other
methods of exchange and cashless transaction have also become possible using
digital currencies such as bitcoin.
INTRODUCTION
However this report discusses about the term “cashless societies” in the sense
of a move towards, and implications of a society where cash is replaced by its
digital equivalent. The world is experiencing a rapid and increasing use of digital
methods of recording, managing and exchanging money in commerce,
investment and daily life. Many parts of world and transaction which would
historically have been undertaken with cash are often undertaken electronically.
Some countries now set limits on transaction and transaction values for which
non-electric payments may be legally used.
During the discussion, Muskan Anand was of the opinion that moving towards
Cashless Economy has made it advantageous for our society:
The summed up benefits are recorded as follows:
However, Mridul Garg said that it is not a hassle free task and recorded
some disadvantages to it:
Puru Azad concluded the survey report and summarized the responses
by putting forward his views. A large number of responses believe that
digital payment helps the economy in some or the other way since they
too prefer cashless methods of payments. For day to day transactions.
Most of the audience prefer online payment and UPI for the said purpose.
It is a well known crises that is widespread all over the world i.e. Covid-19
which has impacted the lives of all the human beings. Therefore people
go with cashless methods during such time of crisis and religiously believe
that such ways make payment easier.
The government has also put in several efforts to make online payments
prevailing. The most common instance that can be witnessed is
demonetization.
*The reader can find all the statistics of the survey in further pages.
SURVEY STATISTICS
CONCLUSION
AFTER CONDUCTING THE SURVEYS AND DISCUSSIONS, OM GARG COULD
EVENTUALLY CONCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
There are various countries in the world which are going cashless. The use non
cash payment for day-to-day consumption expenditure. There are various
reasons in which the country is to be digitalised. It has become necessary to
understand about the cashless economy and its features as nowadays our
country India is also going to be digitalised due to the increasing amount of
black money.
Our country faced a huge money crisis the old notes were demonetised. During
the time of demonetisation the new notes were available at the lowest rate, so
many people tried to exchange the product through the mobile banking system.
People are changing their trends and the government is imposing cashless
transaction into the country. So the need to understand about the cashless
economy is highly necessary.
Going cashless in India is a big transformation as people in rural areas are
unaware of the cashless way of transaction. Therefore it’s study has become
important for the growing youth.
SNAPSHOTS OF DISCUSSION