G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant praises India's digital transformation, highlighting achievements in mobile users, data cost reduction, digital identities, bank accounts, and UPI transactions.

G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant lauds India's digital transformation journey, highlighting achievements such as 100 crore mobile phone users, a 96% reduction in data cost, 1.4 billion unique digital identities, 680 million unique bank accounts, and 520 million PM-JDY accounts opened in 2015-17. India has also seen INR 199 lakh crore (USD 2.4 trillion) worth of UPI transactions in FY 24, contributing 46% of the share in real-time digital payments globally.

June 02, 2024
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