India welfare payments go digital with e-RUPI system

Mobile platform also covers public services in bid to target spending

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Shoppers crowd a market in Ahmedabad, India. The use of cashless payments took off after the government abolished high-denomination bank notes in 2016.  © Reuters

RYOSUKE HANADA, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- India has launched a mobile payment platform designed to efficiently deliver government benefits and limit the misuse of funds dispensed through the country's social welfare system.

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