What is Digidhan Vyapar Yojana?

What is Digidhan Vyapar Yojana?

After Demonetization, Government of India has started its movement to develop India as a cashless economy. For making this step successful, it requires to increase the usage of digital transactions by majority of merchants. To promote cashless transaction, government has introduce new scheme called "Digidhan Vyapar Yojana" for the period from 25/12/2016 to 14/04/2017. The main motto behind the scheme is to award merchants for using cashless means of payment.

The details of the scheme is given below:

Scheme launched by: NITI Aayog & National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI)
Who can participate: Merchants in India
How the winner be selected: Randomly via the transaction id
What is the transaction amount: Any transaction amounting between Rs 50 to Rs 5,000
Start Date: 25 December 2016
Close Date: 14 April 2017
Valid modes of payment: Rupay Debit Cards (Rupay Cards), Phone Based Payment System using *99# (USSD), Unified Payment Interface (UPI) and Aadhaar Enabled Payment System(AEPS)
Weekly Prize: Every week 7000 people get maximum prize of Rs 50,000
Mega Prize:
First prize: Rs 50 Lacs
Second prize: Rs 25 Lacs
Third prize: Rs 5 Lacs
Mega prize draw date: 14 April 2017

Rules / conditions

1. Transaction between Rs 50 and Rs 5000 is considered. More or less amount will not be considered.
2. Payment through credit card or E-wallet not be considered.
3. B2B exchange is not considered.

How to check the result?

Visit https://digidhanlucky.mygov.in/ (on entering registered mobile number and then either transaction-id & date (for Rupay card) or Adhar number(for AEPS) or VPA(for UPI) or Mobile number (for UPPS))