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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday, 8 January, appointed Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani as the chairman of a newly formed committee on digital payments.
According to a RBI release the ‘High-Level Committee on Deepening of Digital Payments’ will work to “encourage digitisation of payments and enhance financial inclusion through digitisation”.
The other members of the committee are: former RBI deputy governor HR Khan, former Vijaya Bank CEO Kishore Sansi and former IT secretary Aruna Sharma. The central bank also appointed Sanjay Jain, chief innovation officer, Center for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE), IIM Ahmedabad
It will also undertake analyses to identify best practices that can be adopted to accelerate digitisation of the economy and financial inclusion through greater use of digital payments.
The committee brief also includes suggesting measures to strengthen the safety and security of digital payments.
The five-member committee is supposed to submit its report within a period of 90 days from the date of its first meeting, the release stated.
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