The industrialist bought pomegranates from the vendor and settled the payment with digital money. He also informed that Bachche Lal Sahani, a local fruit seller, happened to be one of the first merchants to accept ‘e-rupee’ transactions New Delhi: Business tycoon Anand Mahindra recently used India’s digital currency– the ‘e-rupee’ or ‘e-R,’ to buy fresh fruit from a local vendor. …
Bacche Lal Sahani, a fruit vendor in Mumbai, is among the 15,000 people chosen by the Reserve Bank of India for its nationwide pilot project on Central Bank Digital Currency or e-rupee. On the issue of smoothness of transactions, the fruit vendor said that he’s already received a couple of transactions but accepts that the speed is still an issue …
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