NEW DELHI: The Centre today asked states to promote digital payments, specially in rural areas, and review safety measures to prevent leak of personal data like Aadhaar and bank details of people.
The Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) today convened a meeting of state IT secretaries to devise a common strategy to resolve bottlenecks for expediting roll out of digital payments mainly in rural areas.
The meeting was convened to push states for digital payments, “review Aadhaar and sensitise them on issues related to data protection and privacy”, Meity Secretary Aruna Sundararajan told reporters.
“In the last few weeks, there has been a lot of reporting on how Aadhaar data and financially sensitive data have been shown. We sensitised the states about what are the safeguards people should take in this area,” Sundararajan said. (AGENCIES)
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