Nandan Nilekani to head RBI committee on digital payments

New Delhi, Jan 8: Infosys co-founder and Former Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India, Nandan Nilekani to head RBI committee on digital payments.

 Former Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India, Nandan Nilekani

With a view to encourage digitisation of payments and enhance financial inclusion through digitisation, the Reserve Bank of India has decided to constitute a High-Level Committee on Deepening of Digital Payments. 

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Four members committee are: H.R. Khan Former Deputy Governor, RBI 
Kishore Sansi, Former Managing Director & CEO, Vijaya Bank
Aruna Sharma, Former Secretary, Ministry of Information Technology and Steel
Sanjay Jain, Chief Innovation Officer, Center for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE), IIM Ahmedabad

The Committee shall submit its report within a period of 90 days from the date of its first meeting.

Story first published: Tuesday, January 8, 2019, 16:14 [IST]