Such fee levied on e-commerce merchants and institutions that cannot transact currency notes will be commensurate with the ‘Digital Payment Facility Fee’.
On withdrawal restrictions on BSBD or zero-balance accounts, the report said, “In the current phase of digital payments, reserve Bank of India Ways and means will have to be found to keep digital payments out of the old definition of withdrawal restrictions in savings deposits.”
Some banks have put restrictions on transactions. For example, a Mumbai-based bank has limited the number of withdrawals (debit transactions) per month in a BSBD account to 10 – an account type that was specially introduced by the RBI to promote financial inclusion.
A savings account, which is mainly meant for savings and less for transactions, should be the same usable The report released on Sunday said that for both the rich and the poor.
Service charges may vary based on account categories but limiting the number of transactions within a savings bank deposit account product to one and not to the other is discriminatory and possibly affects the right to equality, it added.
As India moves from paper-based payments to digital payments, the report said, an important aspect that will see further acceptance is the ability to make and receive digital payments.
With the ultimate stakeholder being the public and the provider of payment systems, the government has to ensure an environment where stakeholders are able to make a rational choice to adopt at least one digital mode of payment that can closely substitute for currency. Yes, it said.
UPI is at the forefront, allowing people to happily move to digital payments using currency, the government and RBI should provide full support to keep UPI on rails as they are the country’s currency. based payment system, it added.